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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1945)
2 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN Zhe Chemawa American Published once a month during the school year by the Chemawa Indian School. Address all communications to the Chemawa American, Chemawa, Oregon. Published in accordance with the Interior Department appropriation Act, 1 940, approved May 10. 19.39. Subscription 50c a year Myrthus W. Evans, Superintendent Miss Minnie E. Wehunt, Journalism Sponsor Allan Shepard, Printing Instructor Shop Talk The painters have several places on the campus looking better, namely, the kitchen. Brewer hall, and the bakery. They have started work on the band room, now to be converted into a canteen, rhe instructor and the boys have the paint shop in excel lent condition. The auto-mechanics instructor, Mr. Speed, for merly an instructor for die army, is giving the same course of study to our students of mechanics. One hour <»1 each day is given to technical study and the remaining vocational period is devoted to experi ence. The boys work on maintaining the school cars, trucks, and farm machinery. They also do all the hauling for the campus needs. The plumbers, under the direction of Mr. Kunkle, maintain our plumbing system. With three dorm itories, the students’ kitchen, the hospital, and other departments, they have some experience. This class also learns some metal work. They have repaired sixty pitchers for the dining hall, and made ten foot bath tubs winch will be distributed to the students’ buildings. They do some sheets metal work. I ■ Bakery Notes The bakery is one of the busy places of the cam pus. Few of tu realize the amount of bread needed for one week. Your reporter found that the bakery bakes 1,172 Li-pound loaves of bread in an average peek. Other production includes 84 coffee cakes or 500 cinnamon rolls, about 1000 biscuits, 500 cook ies, 82 pies, and about 72 pounds of cake. To make |hese products requires from 1200 to 1500 pounds tf flour, 100 pounds of suger, 400 to 500 eggs, 4 boxes of apples for pies, 2 cases of pumpkin for pies,' 22 pounds of yeast, and other things used in bakeries. * You can readily see that Mrs. Sanders and the bovs are busy. Tommy Williams is chief helpers tnough all the new boys are doing well. CHEMAWA 3 17 45 600 Aggies Visit Corvallis The classes in agriculture, with Mr. Abell, went to the college at Corvallis to observe practices there. In the animal industries division some excellent Hereford ami Aberdeen Angus beef cattle were seen. The horses w ere of heavy draft type, and a few slender saddle Ilorses. Two breeds of hogs are raised there, the Duroe-Jersey and the Poland-China. Several breeds,of sheep and poultry w ere also observed. The bovs saw some interesting results of experiments in breeding, one of which were bulls born blind. Laundry Activities Your reporter speaks from experience, the laun dry is work! We can do it though. Have you ever given a thought to how many hands a garment goes through to come back to you clean again? Each piece must go through many processes: sorting, wash ing, rinsing, drying, mangling or ironing, folding and stacking, and finally delivered to you ready to use. Dress shirts and little girls dresses are ironed by hand. Flat piece are mangled. Some pieces require starch, drying, and sprinkling before ironing. About 4000 pounds of laundry a week is done by Mrs. Hauser and her helpers. o WITH THE COLORS © Harvey Whitford was in the battle of France and received a leg wound. He is now being treated in McCaw General hospital at Walla Walla, Washing ton. Pfc. Frank Backbone, class of’ 41, was wounded in the right arm in action in Italy. He was flown to an American hospital and is recovering. His wife, the former Pearl Deernose, has been to visit him. T-Sgt. Louis Levay received a wound in the hip joint while in action in the Southwest Pacific area. He has been hospitalized since last April. Pfc. Ernest Whitford is now in France with a rail road battalion. Lt. Elinor Warner is now located at a base hos pital in France. Harold Charles, now in the Army, visited friends at Chemawa recently. Ross Sailto visited his sister, Helen, here on Jan uary 22. Ross is in the Navy.
