As part of their daily routine the garbage crew takes the garbage cans to the back of the hospital boiler room to be steam cleaned.

Bert Miura, former garment factory worker from Los Angeles, is shown cutting material for mattress ticking at the garment factory where he is employed as a cutter. All resident work clothing, such as work shirts, sun-tan pants and seersucker brunch coats, are manufactured by this section. Future garment factory workers are trained daily in the various industrial sections.

Industrial Division Attends to Many Tasks

Credited with not only undertaking all tasks coming under the industrial end, but also for the task of training the employed evacuees, the industrial division, under Superintendent Henry R. Haberle, was organized with the creation of the Garment Factory.

With ten women workers headed by Mrs. Taye Jow, the Garment Factory started its production on a borrowed Singer machine at Warehouse 23. At its present location, Warehouses 30 and 31, approximately 13,000 units of clothing have been made.

Woodcraft project under supervision of S. Sasaki, located at Warehouse 32 and 33-15, manufactures toys and furniture.

Community Clothing Alterations and Repair section located at Warehouse 30, is under the supervision of Mrs. S. Sumi. Functions of this group are to repair or alter issued clothing for evacuees of this center.

Producing over 1,600 pounds of bean sprouts since its beginning, the Bean Sprout Project, under J. S. Tomita, is located at Laundry Room 1.

Begun in February, 1943, the Apiary Project, under Supervisor Paul Ichino, plans to produce honey from the 25 hives now set out, for consumption in local mess halls.

The Shoyu Factory, located at Laundry Room 1, is under the supervision of N. Nakamura. Equipment and machinery were installed in October and production started in November.

Other sections include the Cabinet Shop, under the supervision of S. Araki; Sign Shop, supervised by Jack Hirose; Maintenance, under S. Harada; and Domestic Machine Repair, under Carl Kurata.

EFFICIENT CABINET SHOP

From food trays and window shades to a dog exterminating chamber are just a few of the many orders filled by the cabinet shop, located in Warehouses 33 and 34. This project, under the foremanship of Jim Araki, made during the month of June, eighty-two units of equipment for the various divisions in this center valued at almost $500.

File boxes, supply cabinets, executive desks, double deck bookcases, typists' tables, and shelves, are other articles constructed by the thirty employees.

Public Works

Operating 144 boiler units, filling in job gaps in cases of illness or emergency, collecting garbage, dehydrating and deodorizing grease from the messhalls. These are but a few of the ordinary and monotonous jobs rendered by the Maintenance department of the Public Works Division.

Acting Senior Engineer, Arthur M. Sandridge, succeeded Hervey Brown, Jr., in June, Neal Bennett is associate Design Engineer; Clyde E. Bradshaw, chief Construction Foreman; O. E. Sisler, senior Construction Foreman; Herbert F. Thorne, superintendent of Maintenance; Ralph D. Feil, associate Electrical engineer; Justus F. Sheperson, senior Carpenter foreman; and Leon Julian, Lumber Yard superintendent.

Although water rights are controlled by the City of Los Angeles, Manzanar's water supply is supervised by Jiro Matsuyama. He sees that water is supplied and available at all times and properly chlorinated. Daily average of 1,100,000 gallons of water is utilized by the center residents. A reservoir with a capacity of 600,000 gallons, located one mile west of the center, is used as the settling basin. Well No. 75 and Shepherd's Creek supply most of the water consumed.

Manzanar's finest vegetable products on display in the window of the Chalfant Press in Lone Pine. Most of Manzanar's printing jobs including the Free Press, are done at the Chalfant Press. The vegetables shown were grown last year on the south farm, and displayed in the neighboring towns.

Farming

Acting upon a recent notification from Washington urging all centers to enlarge their agricultural program to increase food production this year, this department is striving to make this center as self sustaining as possible. With the assurance that the livestock project will be under way without further delay, and added impetus has been given the agricultural program.

This department is divided into four sections, with the main office located at Warehouse 24. The field unit is divided into six work crews, each supervised man, who are in turn supervision of General Katsugoro Kawase.

All responsibilities concerning propagation and care of seedlings used on the farming project are under the nursery unit supervised by Joe Kishi.

Livestock unit will be completed within the next few weeks and will include beef cattle, swine, and chickens. All meat and poultry units will be located south of the center.

12,500 gallons of shoyu have been produced in the local shoyu project since production started in November. In the photo above Shintaro Nakamura, foremen, poses in the shoyu factory located in block one laundry room.