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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.