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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1949)
The Chemawa American 2 THE CHEMAWA AMERICAN Published during the school year by Chemawa Indian School. Address all communications to the Chemawa American, Chemawa, Oregon. Published in accord ance with the Interior Department Appro priation Act, 1940, approved May 10, 1939. Subscription 50c a year. Russell M. Kelley, Superintendent Miss Beatrice Morse, Journalism Sponsor Allan Shepard, Printing Instructor MAKE MINE MANNERS My name is Frank. I like to write. I like to use good manners when I eat. I hope my "Make Mine Man ners" is put in Chemawa American. All of us should try to have good manners. — Frank Pat Laverdore, Grade 3. THIRD GRADER ON EDUCATION Chemawa is trying to give every one an education, and I am getting my education, too. My mother will be proud of me, and I am going to work my way through college, and help my parents—Patricia Blythe, 3rd grade. Dr. Tsinger, regional supervisor of education, was a recent visitor from the Portland office. Down °he Farm PROJECT PORKERS SOLD Ralph Charles and Danny Foster sold a project pig to the Valley Pack ing company on February 1. Joe Felsman, Horace Ironpipe, Haskell Hood, Ralph Charles, Danny Foster, the eighth and ninth grade farmers all sold pigs on February 7. The top price then was $22.50 per hundredweight, while the top weight was 235 pounds. Pigs weighing over 250 pounds had prices reduced. Two of the project pigs weighed around 300 pounds. AG CLUB NEWS Mr. Noel's Ag club started a new hobby of making bracelets and belts out of plastic cord. The Club mem bers have finished their leather work projects. The Club also has a calf project, each member is required to work at least 10 hours in his free time to pay for the calf. There are 16 members in the Club at present. CHEMAWA 2 24 40 «¡OP McNARY HALL ECHOES January was an exceedingly cold month. Snow fell from time to time. Often the wind came up and howled through the halls of McNary. The boys begged for extra blankets from the store rooms. Still it was cold. In the mornings details of boys were busy gathering the large tree branches that the wind had broken from the tall campus fir trees. Recent visitors on the campus were: Alton Butler, Siletz, Oregon; Charles Hood Jr., Beatty, Oregon; Wilfred Jackson, Beatty, Oregon; Marion Ives Sr., Yakima, Washing ton, and Buck White, Yakima. At the last house meeting the bas ketball players were called on to make speeches. All responded and promised to do their best to win the county championship. The players asked the student body to support them. We hope our team will go to the state tournament this year. Our grade school team enters the Newberg tournament on February 17. They play Sheridan that night. We will all be pulling for them, too. The boys playing in this tournament are Robert Jackson, Lawrence Head, Walter McAtty, James Young, Thomas Patchpe, James Gadawa, Lawrence Wesley, LeRoy Jackson, George Doney, Buddy Weiser, Edward Lo pez; Kenneth Super, manager. Our thanks goes to Benton County Red Cross Chapter for the donation of more than 100 health text books for grade school use. THANKS I The Chemawa varsity basketball team wishes to thank all the em ployees who gave them the nice dinner at the Salem Athletic Club on Sunday, February 13. The team is doing its best to win the tourna ment. We know you are all backing us and that is a good feeling for a player to have. Should we lose, you will know we have done our best. —Vernon Lane, team captain. Master Jimmie Askan is the latest nowcomer to be welcomed to Che mawa campus. Jimmie is the small son of Mr. Askan, Navajo interpreter teacher, who is on the staff here. Shop Talk PLUMBING SHOP The recent freezing weather made some emergency jobs repairing burst pipes. We are also trying hard to keep valve handles on and washers in the faucets so that water can be turned off. Between jobs we have been trying to sort out salvaged parts and repair items in the shop so we can clean it up. We are really getting plenty of experience in several phases of the plumber's trade. PAINT SHOP We are proud of our shop and class room now. The walls and floor have been cleaned and painted. Some old linoleum was salvaged and laid on part of the floor. We cleaned, waxed and polished this part, then painted the border and the shop now looks much better. We have a new paint mixer and a new glass cutting board. This equipment makes our shop more up to date and an interesting place to work. We are really tired of glazing win dows. Every day we have from one to a dozen window panes to put in. Let's all be more careful not to break windows. AUTO SHOP The auto shop tool and supply room has been enlarged, the wash room rebuilt and a space made for the tire repair unit. We appreciate the work the carpenters did for us. The senior boys, John Crane, Alvin Settler and Lawrence James are do ing some special projects in auto repair. This is a very important part of our training and the result must satisfy our customers. The auto shop students were in vited to attend a brake clinic in Salem on Feb. 15. This clinic was sponsored by Colyear Motor Sales company. We learned some very in teresting facts about brakes and the causes for accidents. At the close of the session refreshments were served. We wish to thank the man agement of Colyear company for in viting us to participate.
