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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1932)
Page 3 The CHEM A WA AMERICAN GIRLS’ GOAL-THROW^ NG CONTEST In the girls’ goal-throwing contest held in the gym on March 4 the following resulted: Out of twenty shots at the basket Florence Wells made thirteen, Eunice Buck and Edith Masten each made eleven and Katherine Smith, Marjorie Peters, Thelma Doore and Clara Bozeroff made ten. each In another test of skill Edith Masten shot twenty- nine baskets in one minute; Margaret Hoptowit, twen ty-six and Irene Thomas twenty-five. Rating the contest by classes the freshmen emerged on top, the seniors next, with the sophomores bringing home third honors. On the same night the Winona Hall girls defeated McBride Hall, 25-10. Winona had so much material from which to choose that two full teams were used. The teamwork which Margaret Hoptowit and Helen Adams, forwards for Winona, displayed in the first quarter was outstanding, as well as the fast work of Gertude Thomas, center for McBride, during the entire game. in the art room. The boys are doing fine and it looks like it will really be a model house. Our main object is to learn the care and use of tools. We are coming along slowly but surely. We are finding out the why and wherefore. OUR DAIRY HERD Elery Leno has just returned from the hospital, after an extended illness. Chester Pepion is still ab sent because of sickness. We are glad to welcome Elery and hope for the early return of Chester. William Demmert, Andy Ides and Robert Pher- nettene have each completed some very acceptable boring bar holders. Philip Broncheau has completed most of the different parts of a surface guage. Silas Close has resurfaced a surface plate for the plumbing shop. Ben lyall is busy at the present time taking an inventory of the shop. The boys remain quite indus trious even though the afternoons are pleasent and a well-patronized playground is just outside the door. Twelve months’ production records have been com piled on ten dairy cows which we purchased a year ago. The average production of the ten cows is well above the specified requirements in both milk and butterfat. The purchase included two pure bred and eight grade Holsteins. One pure bred has the record, con sisting of 9,460 pounds of milk and 350.6 pounds of butterfat. The other pure bred was the lowest pro ducer of the ten cows. In fact, she failed to come up to the specified requirements of 8,000 pounds of milk or 250 pounds of butterfat. However, she is only a heifer, she will doubtless exceed the minimum require ments by the time she is a mature cow. All of the eight grade cows exceeded the specified requirements in production. The eight cows averaged 8,771 pounds of milk and 304.4 pounds of butterfat in one year. This is slightly higher than the average production of the original cows in our herd last year. It is also interesting to note that appearance is more deceiving in dairy cows than it is in people. One cow that we bought would scarcely be recognized as a Hol stein. She is all black, her type is not the kind we like to see in dairy cows, her udder would not be con sidered as perfect in shape, yet she was the second highest producing cow—giving 9,450 pounds of milk and 338.3 pounds of butterfat. On the other hand, one of the best looking cows was the third lowest in production. This peculiarity is not the exception, but the rule with dairy cows. MISCELLANEA A POINTER The farm boys are concentrating on plowing the last few days since it has stopped raining. We hope the good weather will continue until we can get the seeding done. The used Fordson tractor which we purchased for the orchard work is running nicely. All the boys helping with the orchard work are becoming tractor drivers. . . Orchard spraying is progressing as rapidly as weather conditions will permit. The last few days of good weather has called the garden boys from their work of sorting potatoes to the more interesting jobs of cultivating the rhubarb and preparing soil for planting onions. The plants in the hotbeds are growing well and will be ready for trans planting into the garden as soon as climatic conditions are favorable for making gardens. What effort are we to make today to develop our personality and character? This would be a worth while question to answer for ourselves each day before breakfast. Each act and thought we are to have to day will add to those of yesterday and of previous days in the development of character and personality. All educators have observed the sometimes startling transition from one form of character and personality to another. This not a matter of clothes, but a matter born of a resolution to accomplish, a determination to achieve some definite end which has become para mount in the student’s mind. Ability to ignite such flames of desire in youth is the ultimate hope of all true educators. MACHINE SHOP NOTES MANUAL TRAINING The manual training departmemt is in the basement of the grade school building. We have nine work benches and tools for a dozen boys. Altogether we have a fairly equipped shop. Owing to the short time the boys have, we are working on only small pro jects, such as stools, match boxes, tie racks, bread boards, and broom holders. The boys who show more interest and do better work are making bird houses, letter and dish cloth racks. Some of the boys who are taking art with Mrs. Wal lace are making a small model house. It is to be used ESCORTS Sat., Mar. 19—To Salem Sun., Mar. 20—McBride - - Winona - Hawley - Sun., Mar. 27—McBride - Winona - Hawley Miss Newell Mr. Lavelle Mrs. Wilcox - Miss Morgan Miss Newell - Mr. Rainey Miss St ranch - Miss Lemley Mr. T. Turner - Mr. Lobdell Mrs. Lobdell - Mr. Mason Mrs. Mason - - -
