Name/Title
Clipping, NewspaperEntry/Object ID
1994.80.51aDescription
Newspaper clipping titled, "Public Works" likely from the Manzanar Free press. The text is as follows:
Public WOrks. Operating 144 boiler units, filling in job gaps in cases of illness or emergency, collecting garbage, dehydrating and deodorizing grease from the mess halls. 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 1,1,00,000 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.Collection
Shiro and Mary Nomura Collection