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DISPLACED FAMILYASKS POUCE TOLOCATE NEW JOBda:flt;One of the first ‘displaced per-! o sons families to arrive in South tl ! Haven tor farm work today sought s] s aid of the state police in finding tl other work after having bbenw ^ ~ —---~ w ^ — w - charged at the farm of Dr. C. L.*Penoyari!The family consists of Mr. and daughter and a 1$ year old son. ; tlt;Mrs. Bal.vs Karazija. a I? year old r• ■■ ™ ^ ^ v mas s s~ ^ w ■ ■ hThey came from Lithuania and b cannot speak English. C(The family has been living on | ti the Penoyar farm. The father d worked for the doctor and the daughter picked blueberries at a the Spellman ranch. She earned i S136 or enough to pay back her passage to America, police stated.! The state police learned through . an interpreter that the father was t a wine man and tentatively secured 4 employment for him at a winery in Paw Paw headed by Tony Mis-curaca. In the meantime temporarywork for the father Xa mpther . was obtained at the £outh Haven 7 Fruit Exchange. |41DR. PENOYAR TOLD THETribune that since he wa* unable . to understand them, continued employment at his place would not be satisfactory. He stated that he( communicated with Don Hamilton, Benton Harbor, of the U. S. Depatr-ment of Agriculture, last August l and asked that he obtain other work - for the Lithuanian family. Hamilton ' later told .^im he could do nothing. Then, Dr. Penoyar said he found another farmer, located on the Base Lm« Road, w ho was willing to j employ them, but that Karazija did not. even go out and apply for the job. Later, the doctor said, he also found them a vacant home wiiere they could move to, and again the family failed to go out and look , at it.r Hamilton's office originally arranged for the employment of the r familv at Dr. Penovar's farm.h
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South Haven Daily Tribune

South Haven, Michigan, US

Tue, Sep 06, 1949

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