Topaz Times, Volume 5, Issues 16-20

Volume 5 #16: Nov. 9, 1943

Page 1: Topaz prepares for Armistice Day observance; job advantages at peak in New York; welfare section moves quarters; workers to view Nov. 11 program.

Report on Tule Lake incident.

Page 2: Recruiting firm to send agent; regulations on bingo passed by Topaz council; typing teachers; engagement; floral classes enrollment set; 14 SSAF candidates asked to contact student counsel unit; information series on relocation made; reports chief to visit here soon.

Page 3: Public library; Topaz to participate in county's education week; shoe stamps available; Delta Legion to hear Noble; Yoshino gets Army discharge.

The Nisei women and German POWs.

Page 4: Sports.

Pages 5-7: In Japanese.

Volume 5 #17: Nov. 11, 1943

Page 1: Farm building class to start; state Senate Dies group starts probe at Tule Lake; game, program today's features; varsity defers benefit drawing; AFSC to prepare gifts for centers; 2800 Sears, Roebuck catalogs distributed; welfare units moved.

Page 2: Desert Echoes; director Ernst issues call for more workers; Oriental Act repeal urged; wedding; leather craft; Scouts gravel school walks; farms available in southern Utah.

Pages 3-6: In Japanese.

Volume 5 #18: Nov. 13, 1943

Page 1: Central file of projects to be moved here; 2620 employment quota to be given trial; training course for foremen set; credit union advisor to come; record concert; fire protection officer here; fifty-five key workers from Tule Lake center arrive today; hostel promoter to visit center.

Page 2: 2000 observe Armistice Day program; Desert Echoes; gift making to be taught; mail xmas cards to overseas men now; 460 farm turkeys to be killed for Thanksgiving dinner.

Page 3: Leaves; relations with other schools favorable; wedding; 65 Boy Scouts hold program; new Girl Scout troop formed; visiting soldiers; church services.

Page 4: Women's Mirror; To the (Wo)men.

Page 5: Sports.

Pages 6-9: In Japanese.

Volume 5 #19: Nov. 16, 1943

Page 1: AG chief here to discuss 1944 farm program; three Topaz volunteers to be called this week; Rossi loses in SF mayoral race; parents subject of student forum; first student reports issued; leave office to manage grants.

A different take on the Tule Lake incident.

Page 2: Job openings; two new investigations at Tule Lake to be started; Provo tent camp closed; mail gifts early, residents urged; domestic jobs open in Delta and Nephi; Utah educators interested in Topaz school program; 3 cattle feedlocks to be constructed.

Pages 3-5: In Japanese.

Volume 5 #20: Nov. 18, 1943

Page 1: Placement to be transferred to personnel unit; evacuee workers harvest many crops in Provo; gasoline usage to be cut 40%; free books to be given away; preparation of turkeys starts.

Page 2: Job openings; work of new statistical laboratory revealed; Provinse will visit project; Thanksgiving dance set by Moderneers; transfer address changes clarified; surplus clothing prices explained; Girl Scout troops.

Page 3: Public Library; New England people feel evacuees can be trusted; Cuneo press agent wants 100 workers; Sato to speak at forum; Court of Honor; oil painting; fire chief back.

Another article on the Japanese women and German POWs.

Pages 4-6: In Japanese.



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