The emergency refugee shelter at Fort Ontario, Oswego, N.Y., has been closed as a place of residence, Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Lakes announced today.
The last group of refugees has left the government-operated shelter which had been their home for a year and a half, and it is expected that final disposition of property and records will be completed within forty-five days. At that time the plant at the fort, administered during the war by the War Relocation Authority of the Department of the Interior, will be returned to the War Department.
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