El Joaquin, vol. 1, no. 10 (July 1, 1942)

f

VOL. IT, NO. 10- STOCKTON ASSEW

CENTER~ WED. JULY 1, 1942

CENTER TO CELEBRATE

ALL DAY EXTRAVAGANZA

SET FOR FOURTH OF JULY 1!

Rxtravagenza!!!

The Fourth of July will seea full

program of activity from morning till late evening.

The recreation department headed by Jack McFarland and

assisted by George Suzuki

the other thirty-two mem-

vers, will supervise the

various activities.

Tentative plans are

to have' games for young -

girls and boys near the

grandstand with Art Hisaka,

Louise Baba and Ruby Sakai

in charge.

Special entertainment,

featuring nani-wabushi,

manzai, jyo-rori, oshibai,

sami~sen, odori, dojo su-

kui, ni-agari, etc., will

be sponsored at the Ed. Ex.

Hall. Mr. M. Nakamura is

chairman.

Boxing matches and judo

Matches are scheduled with

George Uyeda and Karl Kawa-

seki in charge, respectively.

Closely matched softbell

affairs are on tep for the

evening between the Ameri-~

can League All Stars snd

the Netionel League All

Sters; and a pair of Paci-

fic Coast League All Star

tens will tengle against

(Continued on Page 3}

13 MEN SIGN UP

FOR BEET WORK /

Only 13 Stockton Assem-

bly Center evacuees of the.

needed 100 workers have

signed up as yet for beet

work in Ronan (Lake County)

Montana.

Mr. F. H. Woods of the

United States Employment

Office will be at the re+

cruiting booth under the

grandstand to recruit work-

ers again today from 9a.m.

with information regarding

the geographic, climatic

and working conditions in

Ronan,

INTERNEES RETURN /

Three internees, Mr. R.

Ito, Mr. Y. Nakagawa, Mr,

J. Fujimori joined their

families this week. Mr.

Ito and Mr. Nakagawa were

detained in Santa Fe, New

Mexico while Mr. Fujimori

was interned at Bismarck,

North Dakota. They were

welcomed by a large crowd.

and Keiichi Ogasawara plus

"Fine," commented Mr.

Asa S0x00A7. Nicholson, Assis-

tant Center Manager, when

asked how he liked his job.

He added, "But I could use

less heat."

Rugged and stolidly~

puilt, Nicholson hails

from the Lone Star State.

He was born in a town

called Seadrift on Decem-

ber 1, 1905, and attended

schools in Colorado and

New Mexico.

- He has been married for

three years. Fishing is

his hobby.

169 REGISTER :

SELECTIVE SERVICE

SIGNUP FOR 18-19

169 men of the Stockton

Assembly Center in the 18-

19 age group hed registered

at Mess 10 by 5:30 p.m Thes-.

day for the Center's first

and the nation's fifth Se-

lective Service registra-

tion.

Through the diligent

efforts and efficient man-

agement of Ted Ohashi, rep

resenting the Selective -

Service Board, and his vol-

untary co-workers, Reiko

Ogasawara, Clara Kubote,

Helen Furuyama, Kiyoko Ta-

Naka, Kats Nagai and Ted

Mirikitani, the registra-

tion continued smoothly.

Hach registrant was re-

quired to answer nine ques

tions. At the completion

of the nine questions each

registrant was issued a

registration certificate,

which has to be held by

the registrant at all times.

The 18-19 age group is

not subject to the draft as

yet. Only persons in the

20-45 age group are subject

to call by the selective

service.

SPECIAL .

Watch for the supers

colossal eight page

Fourth of July edition ?:

The issue . will carry

the full program of act~

ivity for the day.

SHAFFER ANNOUNCES CONTESTS

FOR JANITORS; MESS WORKERS !

"As an incentive to ma-

intain sanitary and weli-

operated kitchens, we are

going to offer a prize to

the entire kitchen crew of

the kitchen which makes the

best recore during each

ten-day period," said Mr.

L. C. Shaffer.

Awards will be based: `on

the general cleanliness of

kitchen, dining hell and

pantry, method of operation,

neatness and appearance of

kitchen and dining hall em-

ployees, and satisfaction

manifested by the evacuees.

Severe l inspections will be

made by various supervisor-

ial individuels. Decisions

will be based accordingly.

Prizes must necessarily

be food items, since there

is no fund with which to

make other purchases, The

prizes may be ice crean,

watermelons, Persian melons

or other items.

In the second contest a

prize will be offered to

the kitchen having the least

number of broken dishes over

the same teneday period;

and in the third contest, a

prize to the janitors hav-

ing the cleanest buildings.

If the winning janitor has |

a family, the prize will be

increased so the whole fame

ily will benefit.

All three contests will

start July lst and end Ju-

ly 10. The second round

starts July 11 and ends

July 20; 0x00B0 the third covers

the balance of July.

Prizes will be awarded

aS soon as possible after

the close of each contest.

"Tulare ain't got nothin!

onuse Let's go!" commented

Mr. Shaffere

Page 2 EL JOAQUIN

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1942

THERE `S and PROPER PLACE FOR EVERYTHING.

Ss ey th 0x00B0 /

ue. Af REAM Arman. .

and carelessness on the part of a few

unthinking individuals are creating dissention over

holding weekly dances and may cause the abandonment of

further similar affairs.

The Recreation Committee was again besieged with com-

plaints regarding dance participants who failed to re-

turn promptly and quietly to their respective barracks

following last Saturday's dance.

What the young people do after the dance is not the

responsibility or business of the Committee. But since

the complaints---some from perents of the dancerg~--are

directed toward the sponsors of the dance, individuels

are asked to use more discretion for the benefit of the

Community as " whole.

This is the second warning; if the present condition

persists, dances may not be held hereafter.

Cooperation from everyone is essential.

Ukgrows prsclerr /

We are now feced with the problew of reedjusting

our pattern of living within the narrow lives granted

to us by our government.

Naturally, we have found that many of the things that

we have taken for granted no longer exist, at least, for

the duration of the war.

However, among the many freedoms protected for us by

the Constitution, the tolerance in the matter of our re-

ligions must now be considered of paramount importance.

In the church and through its teachings, we can find

@ new outlook on life; for it makes us consider various

things in a different light.

At this criticel period in our lives, faith and re-

ligious fervor will comfort many, while its mumerous

activities will relieve the monotony of our life.

DIPHTHERIA SHOTS / CARD PARTY

Selfishness

"Diphtheria injections The 7:00 p.m. and "after

must be teken in three roll call' card party that

weekly shots due to army is held weekly on Wednes-

regulations," seid Dr. H. day is "shuffling" along

Kanagawa today. fine.

All mothers, having chil-

dren under 12 years of age

About 25 people attended

last Wednesday, and games

who have not yet been of 500 and bridge predomi-

treated, should take their nated. Also, bridge com-

youngsters to the Hospital petition is being organ-

tomorrow so that protection ized, so that matches can

against diphtheria mey be

insured.

Mrs. Shizuko Yoshimura

geve birth toa baby boy

on June 22 at the County

Hospital.

be arranged,

The community extends

its deepest sympathy to

the family of the late

Mr. S. Hattori.

ated

oO

To enlighten the illite-

rate

More "daffy-nitions,"

enumerate

7K OE ok ak ok

adj.

we

WHITE,

"Biack."

Bares. Veis "To perform

successively (and success-

fully) the functions of

mastication, humectation,

and deglutition." Is that

what we've been doing?

SCRIBBLER, n, "A pro-

fessionel writer whose

views are antagonistic to

one's own,"

DIPLOMACY, n. "The pa~

triotic art of lying for

one's country."

DAY, n. "A period of

twenty-four hours, mostly

misspent. This period is

divided into two parts, the

day preper and the night,

or day improper--the for-

mer devoted to sings

and n.

crated to the other sort,

These two kinds of social

activity overlap."

FORK, n. "An instrument

used chiefly for the pur-

pose of putting dead ani-

mals into the mouth." Ouch!

PIE, nw "An advance a

gent of the reaper whose

name is Indigestion." Oh,

but for a pie!

Above daffy-nitions are

Mr. Bierce's concoctions,

KK

A DAY WITH PANCHO'S PALS

8:65 a.m. "hil . wie

beat the timekeeper?

9:50 a.m. 2222....2222

000 0 SSZ%

10:15 a.m,

ZZ

11:00 a.m, "So long!

Gotta get cleaned up for

lunch."

1:30 i Dem

You trumped me!"

pound:45 pem. "Who's treat?"

ZZZee elle.

"Doggone!

5:10 p.m,

at.4, pal."

4:00 p.m, "You mean

we have to put out "4 paper

tomorrow morning?"

5300 p.sm. Work,

730Q p.m. "Roll temr'

8350 p.m. Work,

10:30 p.m. "G nite!"

Peds We're only kidding,

Mr. Levy.

Q a a Be

"Wake me up

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1942

FAMILY STYLE SERVING IN.

EXPERIMENTAL STAGE /

"As soon as the service

spoons arrive, everyone

will eat family style,"

said Mr. L. C. Shaffer,

Director of Mess ag Lodg~

"wings : 4

At present this system

is in dts experimental

stage. At Messes l, 4, 7

and 9 children 6 years and

under and their mothers

are being served family

style. At the last mess

they enter through the

rear door and are served

in the screened off back

section of the mess. Less

highly seasoned food is

prepared for these people.

Latest measles cases

are Helen Tomoda, Fujie

Naraseki, George Narasaki,

Tadashi Nerasaki; Ben Nara-

saki, Helen Shimasaki, Sho-

ji Shimasaki and Hideki

Shimasaki.

Raymond Ishino is

newest victim of mumps.

Al Mitsunaga is. con-

fined with an eye injury;

Yoshio Iteye with a head

- injury.

Haruo Toyofuku went to

the County Hospital with

a fractured arm.

the

"the capable

BL JOAQUIN

85 KIBEl, ADULTS TAKE SPECIAL

Page 3

BEGINNERS. ENGLISH COURSES |

Approximately eighty-

five kibei and adults are

signed up in the special

English classes conducted

by Miss Misao Hiramoto,..

The Beginners'. Special

EXTRAVAGANZA

(Continued from page 1)

each other. Babe Utsumi is

in charge. Also, and game be~

tween the `big! girls and

`small' girls baseball teams

will be taken care of by

Grace Hagio and Polly Baba.

After roll call Satur-

day's program will be cli-

maxed with an "evening

under the stars", as an

open air "Firecracker(?)

Fling" `will be emceed by

Kats Nagei;

`and for the parents, night

movies will be shown by

Jack Fukuyame,

The Fourth of July ac-

tivities will carry over

to Sunday with track and

field events, which will

be held under Kosuke Iji-

chi and Koichi Inouye.

The Junior League young-

sters will combat in a

struggle between the pick (c)

of the league under the

leadership of Jiro Okina-

Bb.

ATTRACTIVE WAITRESSES, MURALS -

DECORATE MESS *

Tucked away in the nor-

thwest corner of the Center

lies Mess #1 with its corps

of lovely waitresses,

Here Head Waitress Lil.

Sako is assisted by Jun and

Doris Ito, Floand Sad Tsu-

rumoto, Hattie Kurata, Fuse:

Nishima, Sally Tahara, Mary

Shimada and Sally Asada.

WithS. Muraoka as Time-

keeper and K. Nakata and S.

Kato aes Chefs, the mess has

Mess Clerk S. Sasaki and

Assistant K. Sakakuchi on

its staff.

Second Cooks are S, Ya~

mashita, T. Fujioks, M, Fu-

Jioke, T. Taguchi, T. Shi-

masaki, T. Nakao, G. Hara,

K. Matsuda, F. Kurata and

L. Fujitani.

S. Misaki, M. Shimose,

F. Yoshioka, F. Teranishi,

A. Masui, Y. Hayashida, N,

Yamamoto, K, Okimoto are

the Dishwashers

Scrub Crew

men ere G. Sakoda, S. Sako-

da, M. Urakami, J. Sakamo-

to, B. Okura, 7. Inoshita,

while the (c)

and Vegetable' 0x00B0

K. `Tabeaaeis.

K. Gondo.

`-'" Mess 1 serves the fewest

` number of people but many

out-of-blockers

qo it" by,its pictures on

the walls, its coolness,

its cute waitresses and its,

Closeness to Stockton,

are drawn

Y. Yada and

English Class; which is

held from 1-2 p.m. at 1-17-

C, takes in those who are

starting to learn Imglish.

The Intermediate Special

English Class, which is

held from 9-10 a.m. at the

Study Hall, is. slightly

more advanced and includes

spelling and conversation.

The two Advanced Special

English classes, which are

held from 8-9 a.m. and 10-

il ami, respectively, at

the Study Hall, consist of

those who are able to con-

verse @ little and to read.

This course includes read-

ing drills, spelling, dic-

tation and practice in pro-

nunciation and conversa-

tion,.

The main objective for

these classes is to enable

the students to speak and

understand everyday English

as well as to be able to

understand what they read.

There is also a Correc-

tive Diction Class from

e-5 poem. under the super-

vision of Miss Grayce Kane-

da. This class is for im-

proving pronuncietion and

ability to converse.

STATE BOARD EXAMS.

Drs. Bertha M. Akimoto

end Junji Hasegawa left

Monday morning at 9 a.m. in

n army truck for the Tan-

foran Assembly Center in

order to commute .on Tues-

day, Wednesday, and Thurs- :

day with other prospective |

applicants to. teke the

.State Board Examination for

physicians and surgeons,

They are expected tore=-.

turn to the Stockton Asset -

bly an on Friday.

Fad. of Bys'm'

Wednesday: 1:00. PMs siele

+) es Boe TIDE ce pem ' Card Party

% S : and after roll call Study Hall

Thursday: | 9200-11300 a.m. Home Nursing

pound300- 43 00 Pp. aM: Home Nursing

4300 pm. Movie

. 7300- pem. Community Steet

Friday: 2300 `Pem. Beginners', Dancing

7:00 so SDM. Outdoor Movie'.

- Grandstand

Saturday; ., `9.2.00 oM. 4th of July -

and all day :

93:15 Pe. Outdoor Movie

Grandstand .-

9215 pem. . Dance

a. Platform

Sundays Buddhist and Christian Church Services

all activities held at Hd. Ex. Hell unless otherwise

indicated.

-

JUDO:

Judo with all the trim-

mings will be one of the

mein features of the gigan-

tic Independence Day pro-

gram. The affair will be

held on the outdoor pavil-

ion in front of the grand-

stand and some fifty top-

flight mat ertists who re-~

present some of the class-

iest in the State will par-

ticipate according to in-

structor Karl Kawasaki,

The full program will

be released in the Saturday

edition,

TRACK and FIELD STARS

TRAIN FOR FOURTH

The coming track and

field meet for the Fourth

of July will consist of

the following events: shot

put, football throw, spri-

nts, distance and relay.

The other probable

events such as high jump

and broad jump will depend

upon the interest shown by

the participants. There~

fore in order to decide

the sbove mentioned events

meeting will be held at

the Recreation Office

after roll call tonight.

EL JO/.QUIN

REDS WIN |

KIWANIS TRIP BEARS 14-4 1 |

Page 4 uy

BUMS and

The pace+setting Reds

the week end to increase the

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1942

added tw more victories over

ir lead to two full" games,

Fridey nite they turned back the crippled Aristocrats

5-3 ina tight contest,

`The tilt was highlighted by

the clessy relief hurling by Mike Takeuchi, who stepped

into the mound in the last frame to crush the threaten-

MAIN OFFICE BATTLES

REC. DEPT. GANG

In @ titanic struggle

for the first unofficial

"championship" of the

Stockton Assembly Center,

the Mein Office staff,

managed by "Jackson" Nic

Farland and captained by

genial Edmund Levy, will

match run for run and sta-

mina for stamine egainst

the rough ad tough Recrea-

tion Office geng tomorrow

evening at 7:00 p.m on

Diamond No. 1.

Chunky Keiichi Qgesawara

will probably stert on the

hilltop for the Rec, Dept.

with Kats "Skipper" Nagai

receiving his slants.

CADINALS SPILL SPARTANS 22-14

KIBEIS NOSE OUT GIANTS 10-9

The Block 5 Cardinals came through to share the sec-

ond spot with the Hell Divers

by spilling the Spartans

ee ~ 14 in a free scoring tilt.

Playing errorless

an easy euroc-6 victory over

the Shangri-las.

In a closely contested

affair Monday nite the

newly entered Kibei ten de-

feated the Giants 10+ 9

in an extra inning game.

A timely single by Okimoto

sent home Yamachika with

the winning tally for the

Kibeis.

RESULTS BR.H B

CERNE eens Pecueedhecle 1

SPARTANS .cecaseeeed4d 9 6

N, Tanimoto and G.Horita; D,

Fujii and N. Shimakawa,

HELL DIVERS..'....21 16 0,

SHANGRI-LAS. al eree 6 7 e 9

D. Shimesaki and L.Shima; K.

Fukumoto and S. Tanake,.

RIB SaaecsassacsadO. pound2.25

POR Oe bake ccnisas FY BES

K. Ite and M. Nakamura; G.

Kamidoi and H. Tsutsui.

softball,

5 timely hits

the Hell Divers scored

"Mou. dhs, Vtand

AMENICAN LEAGUE

Sh Het, |

BOdSvssetivee 9 2 ,.618

Yankees..e... 7 4 4636

Bases visiise 6 4 4600

Bearers .iss.. 6 6 4845

Rainbows..... 5 5 ,.500

Trejenevsis.. 5 and .500

Aristocrats... 4 5 .444

Kiwaniss.is.. 4 6 ,400

Senators.s:.. 3 8 .296

BOMVOTHi ci sse 3 8 4273

NATIONAL LEAGUE

YW and Bet,

: Poop=outs.... 6 0 1.000

Hell Divers.. 6 and ,760

}Cerdinels....6 2 .750

Shangri+las.. 4 4 .500

ESbdesiseeess. 1 1 * 4500

Spertans..... 3 5 375

Giants..ccose 3S "8B (256

Ramblers..e.. 2 6 .250

| Grepepickers.'1 7 .125

REDS... eee ve ee

ing Blk. 1 softballers'

hope by whiffing two bat-~

ters with the bases popu-

dated, Sunday afternoon

they hurdled one of their

big obstacles, the Rain-

bows, in a 15-13 thriller.

Paced by Teruo Baishi-

ki, who came through with

and scoring

5 runs himself, the Bums

Came through another sur-

prising triumph by smash-~

ing the second place Yan-

kees. 19 = 8,

The Kiwanians came

through with their strai-

ght win of the week by

tripping the Bears 14 - 4,

behind George Kagewa's 5

hitter. |

The helpless Senators

went down to their eighth

defeat of the season at the

hends of the Yanks 9 ~ 14,

Although only collect-

ing 7 hits to the Bombers'

lz, the cautious Bears

edged out the Bombers 8-6,

RESULTS R .H and

Rea as ko tb dus dba: 15 13 4

RAINBOWS: 33 ance ee..20 tL. 4

Mi. Takeuchi and B. Hayashi;

J. Maeshiro and Manini,

BUMGAs 6th ccasscee 49 ke oS

TRRBEOEs ess sasess 6 Gie S

I. Ogata and B. Iwataki; J,

Ishida, H.Nitta and S. Yame-

shita.

KIWANIS. (6 ii Ae FOS

BEARS 6650 8s wie 4 5 5

Ge Kagawa and K. Fujinake;

S- Fukuyama and S. Hasegawa,

TOOUAME Si seecesin tO Uk . 2

BOMBERS. ..4s.e030 13 14 11

H. Hirose and T. Sato; H. To-

moda and B, Saiki,

YARRERS iki ce. 14 :1850x00B00x00B05

SENATORS tessinee' 9 8 0x00B0S6

H. Nitta and S, Yamashita; (c)

K. Kawamura and G. Tomura,

7s" 2

ARISTOCRATS,..... 3 5 6

G Baba, M. Takeuchi and

B. Hayeshi; M. Nakai and

J. Sakamoto

BELBS4 2G 8 oe 8bAGS2Bo FI 3

BOMBERS" ss seuseeu 60x00B012 (c)

S. Fukuyama and S. Hasegawa;

veer OD, PH

Abt a dF 3