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About The Chemawa American (Chemawa, Or.) 19??-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1951)
4 The Chemawa American HOMEMAKERS CORNER Navajo Trail The third quarter seems to be going so quickly and there just isn t time to do all we want to do. Our skill in using the "tools” which are usually found in a kitchen is gradu ally improving. Our ability for mea suring more accurately is also being developed. We will have to admit— Arith no intent at bragging, either— that we have turned out some very nice products. The new gas ranges which were installed last fall are very nice to use and we enjoy keep ing them "shined up." The book work which we have each day is of much interest and we are learning things which we should know. After all, many of us will be homemakers and we need to know the things which we are being taught. Then, too, we can practice the good habits which we are learning in our everyday work here at school. LOOKING THROUGH MICROSCOPE Last Monday Mr. Friend brought a microscope to our classroom. We all looked through the microscope. Mr. Friend scraped Joe Badoni's tongue with a tongue blade and we looked at Joe's cells. Joe's cells looked like doughnuts. Cells are little live things. We looked at two more kinds of cells. This was my first time to look through a microscope. I enjoyed it.— Frank Goldtooth. HOSPITAL NEWS The following news item was in the "Tribesman," the Tacoma san paper from the north ward. "Next in line is the cute and shy little Louise Nez from Tonalea, Arizona. She was all smiles the day they told her that she didn't need streptomycin ‘shots' anymore." Good news, Louise; keep it up and you will be back with us next year. Mrs. Seawright visited Louise in January. She reports that she looks very well. Nurse Seawright was surprised when, on her recent visit to Tacoma, she walked into a room and saw Viva Bill there. Viva is a patient in Tacoma. We wish her a speedy recovery. We continue to have mumps. To date there have been 80 cases treated in the hospital. Three cases of whooping cough in December made us very apprehensive. We are very thankful that more cases did not develop. All the students and a large num ber of the employees have completed their typhoid immunizations. Typhoid fever is preventable by accepting three injections 2 or 3 weeks apart and then a yearly "booster shot." MY FIRST YEAR AT CHEMAWA This is my first year at Chemawa. I sure like my school here and my mother likes my school. Last year, I went to school at Winslow, Arizona, public school. My teacher's name is Mr. Friend. He is a good teacher and I like him. There are nine girls and twenty boys in my classroom.—Sar ah Secody. I WANT TO STAY THIS SUMMER I would like to stay here at Che mawa again this summer. Last year I stayed here. I had a good time last summer. That is why I would like to stay here again. Also, it is a good country here, too, and there are many jobs to do in Oregon. The people are good to you and they pay you when you finish your work. —Carl Wauneka. OUR GEOGRAPHY CLASS We are studying and learning to spell correctly and to find the differ ent states with their capitals, and know where they are. We started from the Western states. There are eleven of them. Each of us have maps to fill out. We are putting the states where they belond.—Sam W. Yazzie. HOUSEHOLD PESTS In biology, the Junior class has lately been studying insects, house hold pests and insects that are de structive to plants and animals use ful to man. Some people do not realize how much damage insects do to furniture, clothes, wooden build ings and crops. Examples of destruc tive pests are clothes moths, house flies, cockroaches, termites, corn bor ers, and Japanese beetles. People should learn the habits of destructive insects. Control of such insects is fairly good CAMPUS NEWS ITEMS Mrs. Emil Hauser has again joined the Chemawa Indian School staff. Mrs. Hauser was a member of our staff until about two years ago when she went to California to be with Mr. Hauser who is in the marine corps. Sgt. Hauser is now in Korea. Mrs. Hauser transferred to Chemawa from Sherman Institute. She will teach in the special Navajo program. Mr. William Morrissey, construc tion engineer with headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska, is on the campus for a three weeks visit with his mother, Mrs. M. F. Morrissey, and sister, Mrs. Nell V. Brannon. Eleanor Charley, a senior, has re turned from a week-end visit to her nome in Pendleton, Oregon. Miss Cleora C. Helbing, Supervis or of Indian Education, Portland Oregon, is a Chemawa visitor. Miss Helbing will select the furniture for the new employees club while she is here. Miss Pita Cajete, who was on our hospital nursing staff for four years, has received a promotion to Head Nurse at Mescalero, N. M., hospital. Miss Cajete graduated from Albu querque Indian high school, then took nurses training at St. Joseph's hospital in Albuquerque. Congratu- lalions, Miss Cajete, and good luck. SPORTS Since the last writing the Chema wa Indians have been involved in league play and at times have shown flashes of real power. In defeating Gates, which every one in the league considered an up set, Chemawa just played superior ball. Here's hoping the boys will continue to play so convincingly. Scores for this month's games: Chemawa 42. Gates 37 Chemawa 27. ... ..Jefferson 39 Chemawa 40 __ Sublimity 48 Chemawa 43 . Mill City 41 Chemawa 52 . .... Detroit 33 Season record.... .__ .....Won 8, Lost 9 League Record........ ....... Won 6, Lost 7 The "B" squad dropped two games and won three games for the month. They now own a 12 won 4 lost rec ord. League record; won 10 lost 3. They rest in second place in league standings
