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FARMING
We’ve been pruning trees for the past few days and
the boys who are doing the task are becoming quite
proficient at it and some nip like old timers. There
are one or two when given a job don’t do it so well but
they get it done. Slow but sure you might say.
The farm is no place for a lazy man and one of that
caliber should not take up this vocation.
TAILOR SHOP
The tailors are thankful to Mr. Sherman and his
boys for the fine job they did in wiring the tailor shop.
It makes the shop up to date in every way besides be
ing safe from fire.
The advanced tailors have been busy all fall making
civilian suits for some of the boys and the workman
ship was very good.
COOKING DEPARTMENT
During the month of February there was a contest
between division one and division two of the cooks.
The contest rule was the division that had the least
tardy marks would get to invite their girl friends to
dinner in the Altamot. Division two won the contest
the score was 8 to 2 tardy marks.
With good results another contest is being held this
month.
Nealy Underwood graduated as a restaurant cook
and has a good job at Toppenish, Wash.
MECHANICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING
James Dupuis has recently finished his set of plans
and estimate for the proposed remodeling of Brewer
hall into a shop building.
He is now working on
plans for small cottages.
Frank Friedlander is working on mechanical per
spective. Those illusive station points and vanishing
points coupled with foreshortening can be quite trouble
some. He is doing the persective for one of James
Dupuis “dream houses.’’
Ben Palmer, Vernon Jackson, Gilbert Glen and
Frank Madplume have each completed their plans for
a small cottage.
They are now working on details
and plans for larger cottages.
The drawing room “darnits” have been causing the
first year draftsmen some trouble now that they are
inking their drawings.
MACHINE SHOP
The boys in the machine shop have been working
on an ornamental wrought iron radio table which is
now complete. It is indeed a fine piece of work and
the boys who worked on it deserve praise.
The boys have also done some work for the laundry.
This work was the installing of a new counter-shaft
for the water extracter.
In the near future the planer in the shop will be
operated by an electric motor which w’ill be indepen
dent of the line shaft,thus eliminating a lot of belts
and pulleys. The lathes and other machinery will also
be installed with such motors as soon as possible. This
type of installation will bring about considerable sav
ing of power cost.
SHOE SHOP
There have been 1,566 pairs of shoes repaired since
September. Footballs, football suits, basketballs and
leather coats have also been repaired.
One of our fellow shoe repairers, Louis Grambois,
started shoe repairing in September 1934 and he be
came so proficient in his work that his instructor, Mr.
Decorah, secured a place for him in a Salem shop on
Monday, March 4th. We understand he is to operate
the shoe department for the owners.
We w’ill not be surprised if some more of us get a
chance to get in some shoe shop in the near future.
We were given the understanding that each one of us
should put our efforts toward that end this summer.
“How true the old saying is that one must enjoy his
work to believe in it if he is to succeed beyond an
ordinary degree.”
ELECTRIC SHOP
Elmer Berrys and Albert Portwood have completed
the rewiring of the south half of the shop building.
This job required $225.00 worth of material and over
350 hours of labor.
The Brownell Electric Co. of
Salem will have the Hospital rewiring finished by the
end of this week.
BLACKSMITH AND AUTO SHOP
Eli Dumont and and Stan Solomon have just com
pleted a rebore job on a Ford motor. They expect to
have it running this week. The motor is now .031”
oversize.
John Spencer has resumed his studies at the Auto
shop after spending a week at home.
Lloyd Baker and John Spencer are giving the motor
on Mr. Rickard’s Ford the once over. The job con
sists of replacing rings, taking up all bearings, re
grinding and resetting valves.
From the last general shop group Milo Enic’s record
showed up the highest in interest and talent in both
auto and blacksmith shops.
BARBER SHOP
The barber shop is very badly broken up because
quite a number are in the hospital taking their spring
vacation.
Albert St Martin is to graduate on the 19th of this
month.
Mr. Hall also wants it known that he has a lot of
foreigners from the state of Washington.