The Chemawa American, March 21, 1941, Image 1

Chemawa American
A Publication Devoted to the Progress of Indian Education
VOLUME XXXXI
CHEMAWA. OREGON, MARCH 21. 1941
Continued Progress Noted
in 4-H Club Work
F arm C lub
Ben Finley. Bill Williamson, Carl Leader and
Calvin Leader are very busy with their many
farm duties. They are very faithful with their
daily and weekly written reports.
In addition to their duties around and in the
farm buildings their reports show that they
helped perform surgical operations on horses,
plowed,disced and harrowed for farm crops,helped
prepare the land for the grade school garden,
did repair work in the barn, repaired farm machin­
ery, helped break colts, hauled straw to the dairy
barn, and stored machinery in the machine shed.
These boys, under the leadership of Claude
Loveall and Frank Lane, have become very adept
jn shoeing horses, handling and harnessing horses,
driving teams, preparing soil for crop planting,
caring for farm machinery, cultivating and train­
ing the berry crops, caring for harness, naming
and identifying the parts of a horse and harness,
caring for horses’ hoofs, manes and shoulders
and many other things a real farmer must know
if he is to succeed. Ben’s colored drawing of a
horses hoof was a very interesting part of the ex­
hibit during the conference in February. Many
favorable comments were made about it by the
visiting instructor delegates.
P ig C lub
Elmer Benton, Perry Willburn, Calvin Will­
burn and Alfonso Washington are real 4-H Pig
club members. They are taking much interest in
their work. Recently they sold ten head of fat
hogs on the Salem market. They loaded the pigs
inthe truck, accompanied them to Salem,saw them
weighed, and each receive a check for his share of
the money, which amounted to $44.27 for each
boy. Their pictures were taken while they were
unloading the hogs at the slaughter house, also
while the cashier was writing and handing them
their checks.
Before the hogs were weighed, each boy guessed
on the total weight of the ten pigs. Most of
the weight guesses were around 2000 pounds, but
the total weight was 2285 pounds. At that, they
guessed closer than we, who are supposed to be
good at it. The nearest guess was made by Herman
Hudson, the truck driver, who placed his guess
NUMBER EIGHT
without even looking at the pigs. After receiv­
ing their checks, they returned to Chemawa,
where they deposited 70 per cent of the check into
their savings account in the main office. Out of
this 70 per cent, they will each buy a pure bred
Poland china gilt which they will raise and show
at the state fair and use for foundation herd
purposes. They still have three hogs which will
be ready for market in about ten days.
Elmer’s pure bred Poland china sow farrowed
a fine litter of nine pigs on March 6. There were
four sows and five boars in the litter. The boys
were on the job while the litter was being farrowed
and stayed until nearly one o’clock in the
morning to see all was well for the night. As
fast as pigs were farrowed, the boys put them
in boxes that were lined with cloth and took them
to the feed room, where the boxes were placed
near the stove. In this way the pigs were kept
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Showalter Transferred
Mr. William B. Showalter, who has been
principal of Chemawa for the past few years, has
been transferred to White Rock, Utah.
Mr.
Showalter first came to Chemawa ten years ago,
as a shop instructor. He was very much inter­
ested in the vocational department, and he was,
for several years, adviser for boys’ vocations.
Under his able direction the boys’ vocational
department was improved greatly. He contrib­
uted much toward building a closer relationship
between the academic work and the shops. Mr.
Showalter helped very much to establish the
Homerooms, and the progam in connection with
the Homerooms.
The faculty gave Mr. and Mrs. Showalter a
farewell party in the Protestant chapel on March
12. The Showalters left the campus on March
15, although they are gone to another place, the
memories they leave will be happy and cherished
ones. We look forward to a visit from them in
time to come.
The Girl Scouts are giving an amatuer pro­
gram on March 26, to raise money to start a
Girl Scout Troop at Chemawa. The admission
is 10 cents, so save your dimes and be ready at
seven o’clock for an evening of grand entertain­
ment!