The community is in dire need of various equipments, such as sewing machines, pianos, books, musical instruments and athletic equipments, Harry Mayeda, assistant to Ted Waller, announced. The situation is so acute that only one sewing machine is assigned to a class of 150.

The Recreation Department is in receipt of a letter from the War Relocation Authority stating that all goods of evacuees shipped at the expense of the government will not become the property of the government.

George Dean arrived here from the regional offices Wednesday afternoon to take the position as chief of the information division until John Cooke from the regional headquarters arrives sometime the next week to take over the assignment. Dean's position was formerly held by Foster Goss who reported to the Gila Project in Sacaton, Ariz.

Sumio Miyamoto was temporary appointed business manager of all community enterprises.

An acute shortage of cots, mattresses and blankets was emphasized again today by Assistant Director Hayes as more evacuees arrive in Tule Lake from the Pinedale Assembly Center. Anyone having more than two blankets per person in his apartment or extra cots and blankets, with the arrival of his furniture from government storage, he is asked to relinquish them to the administration so that the new arrivals may be cared for.

Hayes disclosed that the Colony has been allotted but 33,000 blankets which is the equivalent to three blankets per person for 70% of the population here. Furthermore, a number of cots have been broken.

To give economic aid to needy families, the number of which is believed increasing with the passage of evacuation days here, the Community Council decided to make a survey of this situation through the office of block managers shortly. The names of those families, which will be kept confidential, will be reported to the administration office and the welfare angle handled through the Social Welfare department.

To increase the efficiency of egress and ingress inspections at the main gate, a corps of civilian staff will be set up soon to act as inspectors. Army sentries are now on duty for this purpose.

A six-pound one-ounce baby girl was born to Mr. Kimito (33) and Mrs. Yaneo (28) Kimura at 3 p.m. July 21. Mr. Kimura, formerly a farmer at Lodi, is employed as a carpenter here. This is their first child.

Eight-year old George Kenji Dairiki of 1205-A-B, son of Mrs. Hatsuye Dairiki, died at the Base Hospital.

Kumataro Hiraoka (68) formerly of Pinedale died Tuesday at the local hospital. The deceased is survived by his widow, Mrs. Miyo Hiraoka, 6713-A.

To relieve the extremely uncomfortable mosquito situation in the northern fringe of the Colony, the construction department put a crew of 25 men yesterday to put up window screens in Block 34. After this block is completed the crew will proceed to Block 33, 22, 35, 32, 23, 36, 31, and 24. All screening will be done exclusively by this construction department crew until further notice, it was announced.

The Public Health Crews man the front line of the community's health and sanitation. They work hard at a job that has to be done. A clamour for applause? No, they just ask for a little thoughtful consideration on the part of the community residents. Sure, the job is not a pleasant one -- a contrasting light to "white-collared" occupations. But should the type of occupation make any difference as to the prestige of a worker socially or for that matter, accepted physically a part of the whole? After all, there is no such thing as the elite, the upper crusted, blue-blooded Tulean.

We are all in the same boat. Let's not have any distinction between workers in this colony. We all hold an equal share in making this community as pleasant a place to live in as possible. Each person is relegated to an oar. Let's pull together, for it matters not whether you're on the stroke or bowman, whether you're on the starboard or port. But precision, teamwork toward a common end does.

If anyone is the nobler for it -- no who overstops rank and pride to tackle a job that is out-of-the-way is certainly the one.

B.M.

Editor: We go to church services, we go to fellowships, but we have to stand through the whole period ... and that really gets tiresome -- no matter how interestingly the services and the fellowships are conducted. Why can't the church get adequate benches if the other institutions can rate elaborate equipment?

ONE WHO HAS ATTENDED.

(The church groups are doing their best to secure benches and chairs for their services. But until then they request that you bring your own. -- Ed.)

Dear Editor: I thought our representatives' elections were supposed to be on the secret ballot system. Our voting was done out in public without benefit of any privacy whatever. Also, I thought an official committee was supposed to count the ballots out in the open.

DISGUSTED.

(All representative elections are, under project instructions, to be on the secret ballot system. Someone evidently disregarded specific instructions. -- Editor)

Dear Editor-Dispatch: I've heard so much complaint about the incompetence of the mess crew at Block 45 that it isn't even funny. If these people who habitually moan about something will try cooking for 300 people themselves they'll find out that it isn't any bed of roses.

We must get together, let's have constructive criticisms but no destructive ones. Here's a bouquet of roses to the cooks and staff of 45 and a bouquet of poison ivy to those diners of 45 who complain.

JUST A DINER AT 45

THE FOLLOWING LETTER was received by Morris Abe, 1503-A.

'Dear Morris: My uncle has asked me to write you concerning the present rumors that your father had passed away recently at Tule Lake. Having heard that he was in Puyallup, I wondered whether it was your father or someone else. If it is your family that is in grief, please accept our sincerest regret for your sorrow."

(Paul Abe, the father of Morris Abe, is in the best of health and is leading a very vigorous and active life as block manager of #15. Editor)