THE CHEMAWA ANERICAN
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Was Prisoner in Phillipines.
There are fourteen girls in the beginning cook
ing class and their foods work is centered around
breakfast and picnic meals.
In a letter to Supt. Evans, Mrs. Otto McClusky
wrote that she missed the school and wanted to be
remembered to friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Murchison, grandparents
of Herbie Murchison, were campus visitors in Oc
tober. Mr. Murchison was recently elected mayor of
Metlakatla, Alaska.
Mr. and Mrs. James Evans, of Metlakatla, Alaska,
visited friends on the campus in November. Mr.
Evans graduated from Chemawa in 1914, and is
secretary of the Metlakatla, Alaska, town council.
Reuben Sanders Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Reuben
Sanders, returned to the campus in September after
4 years, 7 months'and 7 days in the Army. He served
with the 32nd Division in Australia and New Guinea.
Four students in the shoe shop with their in-
structer, Mr. Stanley Ashcut, repair an average of
40 pairs of shoes a week. Mr. Ashcut “doubles in
brass” at the barber shop, where a class of four
boys average 25 hair cuts per half-day.
Thirty-four girls in the ninth grade have perfect
attendance records. Four ninth-graders are assigned
to the rural-type practice house in "Northwest”
Chemawa. Tenth graders are with Mrs. Schultz in
the sewing room, the juniors are doing similar
work with Mrs. James and the seniors are complet
ing the final unit in cookery with Mrs. Cronk.
Miss Beatrice Morse, a former Tule Lake teacher,
is now the senior and junior teacher. Miss Morse is
replacing Miss Wehunt. We were told that she has
not been lonesome here since she has found an old
friend from South Dakota, Miss Goings. Miss Morse
has many interesting things to tell us of her expe
riences at the Tule Lake Relocation center for Jap
anese in California.
The most lasting memories of 33 months as a
civilian prisoner of war in the Phillipines for Mrs.
Lula H. Detrick, tenth grade teacher at Chemawa,
were constant hunger during imprisonment and
joy at liberation. In telling student reporters about
prison camp life she said that every one had cer
tain duties to perform, the Japs^allowed church
services but no other gatherings were permitted.
Sports and recreation were allowed until the
American forces started to regain lost ground in
the Pacific. Mrs. Detrick said some people in her
camp were tortured. No clothing was issued to
prisoners and only 300 calories per day was given
in food.
Terry Francis Gloves Champ
Portland, Ore., Jan. 26 (United Press)—Seven
Oregon youths and two Washingtonians emerged
from the Oregon Golden Gloves here last night
with boxing crowds to end one of the most suc
cessful three-night amateur boxing tournaments
in history before a record breaking crowd of 2516
fans.
Three technical knockouts and six decisions were
recorded as the 1946 Golden Gloves passed into
boxing’s history books, grossing the March of Dimes
some $4500.
In the gamest fight yet desplayed here, Terry
Francis, sturdy Chemawa Indian school scrapper,
won the 175-pound crown in a thrilling comeback
bout with Lloyd dowty, Portland. Clubbed down
in the first round for a count of eight, Francis
managed to last out the round and roar into the
second and third to gain the decision. He also
won a gold wrist watch for the gamest fighter of
the tourney.
Joe Pete, another Chemawa scrapper, lost the
decision to Dennis Quinn of Multnomah club in
the 126-pound division.
Art Johnson, 135 pounds, reached the finals of
the consolation series but could not compete on the
final night because of a cut over his eyes.
The Chemawa boys were favorites with the large
crowds throughout the tournament.
• Miss Morse: "Elwood, do you know Poe's Rav
en?”
Klondike Pete: "No, what’s he mad about?”