Minidoka Irrigator: Vol. 4 #1-5

Volume 4 #1: Feb. 26, 1944

Page 1: Issuance of all seasonal leaves halted; Director Myer clarifies Nisei draft situation; ASTP tests for Nisei men start; House rejects one, passes other Nisei bill; Tule Lake evacuee arrested on liquor charge; buttons must be displayed by convoy riders; Nisei marine sergeant visits Poston; Hunt mail carriers start work after three day halt; pedestrians asked to keep off roads for safety reasons; Japan refuses negotiations for three exchange; 35 block commissioners elected by residents; Ickes announces disbanding of Jerome center; 97 Nisei draftees accepted by Army; child dies of burns suffered in ash pit; absentee ballots of Seattle ready; Hunt hometown to relocatees scattered in 33 states; two Nisei withdraw test case on legality of Ogden license denial; personnel nets $12, 475.60 in war loan drive; Sgt. Ben Kuroki speaks on Ginny Simms' program; five youths plead guilty to draft evasion charge; youth arrested on sedition charge (draft-related).

Salt Lake City.

Page 2: Editorials; visitors; relocation opportunities; Pipe Dreamin'; fair play for Nisei asked in petition by ninety prominent Salt Lakers; Major Kelly, Chicago, outlines deep significance in race relations; relocated; Sun writes of Omiya's sacrifice; missionary who returned on Gripsholm to talk.

Page 3: Evacu-ways; weddings & engagements; ex-Huntites hold reunion in Chicago; movie schedule; weekly social calendar; Covering Hunt News; The Ten Thousand; record concerts slated for Sunday; block 3 sponsors tolo 'turnabout'; block 35 presents paper doll shuffle.

Page 4: Sports; draft teletype; Sunday church services.

Volume 4 #2: March 4, 1944

Page 1: Community government is set up; seven-man council takes oath of office; project director gives message; 117 Hunt men pass pre-induction physicals; Private Sawada wounded in Italy; 'Go for Broke' now being shown throughout center; Myer reports 402 in ten centers pass physicals; Stafford sets up F.E.P.C. to meet labor needs; relocation from centers voluntary; Myer announces new seasonal leave rules; Nisei infantrymen rescue Army major; ration board now in stats building; 18 leave on Wed. for Crystal City; 18 students place on honor society; staff housing unit nears completion; Stafford leaves; two return from Gila farm conference; Manzanar segregants arrive at Tule center; high school nets $54.59 for Red Cross drive.

Page 2: Editorials; what further proof of loyalty can be asked? ; Hawaiian soldiers in Italy prove handy with grenades; relocated; Nisei speaks on network.

A wall of prejudice.

More on prejudice.

Page 3: Evacu-Ways; High Wind; family may send message to wounded soldiers; achievement of Nisei students in wartime campus life remarkable; weddings and engagements; Covering Hunt News; The Ten Thousand; weekly social calendar; movie schedule.

Page 4: Sports; Foto Chats; draft call from page 1; vital statistics; relocation opportunities; classified ads; Sunday church activities; clothing allowance to be given preachers' families; 81-year-old pastor to be honored; evacuation article on sale at church.

Volume 4 #3: March 11, 1944

Page 1: Project council takes up many community problems; co-op board elects president; War Dept. clarifies Army policy; new project counselor; two represent Hunt at Idaho Falls confab; Pfc. Red Sawada receives purple heart; optical exams; center visits restricted in new rule; must return ration books; March draft calls 289 Hunt men for army; 536 1/2 acres to be put in vegetables on project farm; 'puka puka' boys of 100th battalion prove worth under fire in Italy; Our Honor Roll; removal of Nisei from Camp Grant requested; two fires reported during past week; U.S. compensation claims processed by personnel sec.; central service transfers to property control.

Page 2: Editorials; The Readers' Rostrum; allowances for dependents of soldiers; encore; vital statistics.

Page 3: High Wind; Covering Hunt News; The Ten Thousand; weddings & engagements; weekly social calendar; movie schedule.

Page 4: Foto Chats; sports; paychecks for ex-Tuleans here; At The Wheel; Sunday church activities; draft; classified ads; fishing derby planned.

Volume 4 #4: March 18, 1944

Page 1: Drive for Hunt Red Cross to be held; Kamaya-pioneer farmer; Gotham Japanese pledge support in Red Cross drive; postal rates rise soon; Sgt. Kuroki thanks Utah's Gov Maw for fair attitude; inductees free to visit center while waiting call; examinations held today for Army; construction of gymnasium again resumed; new baggage pick-up system; Nisei sergeant blazes path for men by defusing mines with bare hands; eight men report for induction; vehicle exchange nears completion; 21,000 persons of Japanese ancestry now relocated; WRA celebrates second birthday; 18-year-olds must register for draft; war department considers evacuee dependent status; Nisei installed as pastor in Chicago; draft matters beyond Spanish counsel authority; rules on shoe stamps reported by ration head; Myer praises war loan drive support; Stafford returns from conference; Our Honor Roll.

Page 2: Editorials; relocated; allowances for dependents of soldiers (cont.); The Road Back; Evacu-ways; The Readers' Rostrum; last year about this time; vital statistics.

Page 3: Random Whirlgig; The Ten Thousand; weddings and engagements; Ogden choses for YPCC meeting next year; visitors; Covering Hunt News; movie schedule.

Page 4: Sports; Foto Chats; Your Co-op; D.S.Myer praises local co-op; February report on farm released; Sunday church activities; At The Wheel; classified ads; relocation opportunities.

Volume 4 #5: March 25, 1944

Page 1: Council airs city's problems; Hunt Red Cross drive closes today; youth wins $7000 crop damage suit; women drivers, mechanics needed by motor pool; caution urged against sagebrush trips; Twin Cities' jobs shrink; 46 boys take ASTP tests; Nisei have voting rights; nine draftees answer call; 147 pass physical; co-op refunds will be made; draft official thanks 4 girls; new leave rule for Chicago hotel; printing names of those called up for physical exams new taboo; project attorney arrives from Topaz; 5,516 lbs. chicken deliver to mess; Hunt honor roll members spend furloughs with parents, friends; find community unchanged.

Page 2: Editorials; allowances for dependents of soldiers (cont.); visitors; Sandburg avers Nisei loyal to U.S.; Vernon Kennedy speaks of Japanese in Chicago; brave :Yanks with yellow skin.

Page 3: Evacu-ways; weddings and engagements; 2500 relocated to college through aid of student relocation council; weekly social calendar; it's here again-Spring; The Ten Thousand; movie schedule; dances.

Page 4: Sports; Foto chats; classified ads; Sunday church activities.



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