The Chemawa American, March 25, 1931, Page 4, Image 4

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CHEMAWA WRESTLERS MAKE GOOD SHOWING
Last Saturday three members of our wrestling team
were entered in the Northwest Amateur Wrestling
Tournament staged at Multnomah Club in Portland.
Though they went up against the cream of the North­
west they did not come home empty handed. Peter
McClusky and George Pepion both returned with med­
als to glorify their efforts. Wrestling in the 155-pound
class Peter entered up against the veteran Chester
Newton, runner-up for the World Olympic champion­
ship in 1924. The Morning Oregonian had this to
say about their match: ‘ ‘Chester Newton, the Winged
‘M’ 155-pound Star, preformed in his usual form
and although faced with stiff competition finally pinned
Peter McClusky, Chemawa Indian, in six minutes.
It was a nip-and-tuck battle with the match even the
first four minutes.
McClusky in the semi-finals es­
tablished a quick time fall record for the tourney. He
struck out and grappled Albert Lerch, Multnomah
Club, to the mat, pinning his sholders to the rubber
canvas in exactly 16 seconds. Chemawa had several
contestants entered and every one made a good show­
ing, McClusky especially taking the eye of the fans.”
Friday our wrestling team will go to Portland to
tackle the combined strength of Benson Tech and the
Portland Y. M. C. A. teams.
Last Saturday morning our cross-country runners
defeated the Washington high school team by the score
of 33 to 22. This victory gives our boys a slight lead
over the Washingtonians. Five races have been run
and our runners have captured three of the prizes.
Last Saturday Jesse Jim, our head man, lead the field
with a nice margin. In fact it was good enough to
give us hopes of a miler that will hold his own in the
meets that are to take place this spring. Close upon
the heels of Gotthardt and Freer, Washington veterans
who finished second and third as mentioned, came
‘Lefty” Wilder, Bennie Jones, Herman Goudy and
Ira Booth. Bufton and Snell of Washington finished
eighth and ninth and Chester Pepion grabbed the last
place.
Weather permitting, our baseball candidates will en­
gage in a series of try-out games this week. The fifty
candidates spent all of last week on the ground floor
of our new gymnasium loosening up the muscles in
their arms and bunting.
Roy Meachem, our hustling catcher of the past two
seasons, has Leonard Vivetteand Peter Seltice in hand
and is helping them to locate the plate. Leonard was
our relief man last year for Joe Alexander. Joe had a
AMERICAN
good season, dropping only one league game, that of
the championship series to Woodburn. Just about
half of our 1930 team will be on hand to make their
bid for positions. Roy Meachem, catcher; Leonard
Vivette, pitcher; Uriah Alexander, second base, and
Philip Corbett, left field, are the only regulars present.
Though much promising material is showing up we
have had no opportunity to test their real ability.
A NEW JOB FOR THE INDIAN BUREAU
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molding of a human community out of a plastic race,
a task so fascinating that he lingers long in working
out his experiments.
In the Alaskan native community the school is the
center of all activity—social, industrial and civic.
The teacher is guide, leader and much else the com­
munity may demand. To be “teacher” in the nar­
row schoolroom sense is the least of his duties in Alas­
ka. He must often be physician, nurse, postmaster,
business manager, wireless operator, and community
builder.
There are comfortable school buildings, all of them
built of wood, in all the populous villages. There are
three industrial boarding schools for natives. The
school buildings are likely to contain, in addition to
the recitation room, an industrial room, kitchen,
quarters for the teacher, and a laundry and bath for
the use of the native community.
Sixteen stations are maintained to which trained
nurses are attached. In most of the settlements the
nurses live in quarters provided for the teaching staff,
meet the people in their homes, study their problems
and become their advisor.
Most unique among the enterprises of the Govern­
ment in reaching the Alaskan native with medical care
is a little gasoline launch 25 feet long, its tiny bunkers
stocked with medicine, surgical implements and sup­
plies, which every summer goes on a long cruise from
village to village up the Yukon river. The medical
officer who is skipper for this launch thus makes an
annual call at each of scores of native villages and
offers to those suffering infirmities whatever relief
medicine or surgery, under the circumstances may
bring.
The Indian Service has long been responsible for the
education and health of more than 200,000 members
of the Indian race. It has maintained a system of day
schools on the reservations, supplemented by boarding
schools scattered throughout the West. It has a staff
which has been administering many hospitals and look­
ing after the health of these native Americans over a
large area. Its task as to both education and health
of the natives within continental United States is very
similar to the problems in Alaska and the present re­
organization is due to the belief that these functions
more properly belong to the Indian Service than to a
research agency such as the Office of Education.
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