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to help expectant mothers with advice and layettes, and to continue the help with sewing and other services after the birth of the child.
A YMCA Club was established in June which has proved sucessful.
In the early part of 1946, a camp newspaper was published which included items translated from the Stars and Stripes and other newspaper, as well as items gathered by radio monitors, by when rigid licensing regulations went into effect, the newspaper was reduced to a bulletin of camp news which is now issued weekly. A copy is enclosed.
Sports continued to thrive under the direction of a sport section of the Latvian Committee set up in the Autumn of 1945. Junker has always made a presentable showing in inter-camp competition, but its only champion has been a javelin thrower and a shot putter. Its outstanding team is the chess team of the Erika Club which in 1946, won the championship of Kassel and finished second for the province of Kurhessen. Thi preeminence in a purely intellectual pastime is probably typically Latvian.
A garden competition organized by Mme. Laborde was entered by 96 families in the camp, and twenty prizes were distributed for the best gardens.
Screening and Eligibility
The camp was screened in April by a team from the 30th. Infantry using questionnaires filled in by the DPs. No one was given an individual interview and no one was evicted on the basis of the information given in the questionnaires.
In August, the camp was screened by a twenty-year-old infantry second lieutenant who spoke no language other than English and who, it is believed, had had no previous screening experience. He found eight Latvians and two Estonians ineligible for care, most of them for having come into the American Zone after August 1., 1945. All of the
Latvians