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The Chemawa American
SHOP TALK
Bartell, a district telephone man, in
stall a fire alarm system on the
campus.—Owens Yallup, reporter.
SHOE SHOP
There are nine boys working in
the shoe shop at present, Harry L.
Dodsen, David Copazoni, Bennie
Claw, Eugene Tsosie and Bensen
Gibson make up the morning class.
The afternoon class members are
Petey Henthorne, Ken Conner, Pat
Morin, Ai Hawley and the two bar
bers, ]oe Coburn and Snookin Hon-
ena.
The shoe shop boys are all well
acquainted with all kinds of shoe
and leather repair. Mr. Ashcut is
teaching a unit in leathercraft to the
boys.
They have made billfolds,
belts, leather picture frames and
various other items. These articles
will be on display when the shops
have open house. The barbers are
taking advantage of the leather work
too.
Two of the Navajo boys, Harry
Dodsen and Eugene Tsosie, are do
ing on-the-job work in Salem on
Saturdays.—Ben Gibsen, reporter.
ELECTRIC SHOP
The boys in the electric shop are
assigned to certain buildings on the
campus so that when job orders
come into the shop from any of the
buildings the boys assigned to that
building go out and do the job re
quested.
Justin Pinkham and Alfred Hawk
are assigned to the hospital, high
school, Navajo school and grade
school buildings besides outside
construction
and
maintenance.
Mitchell R. Crane and William Edmo
are assigned to laundry, McNary and
Mitchell halls, and do shop repair.
Charles Wyman and Owens Yallup
are assigned to Brewer, Hawley,
McBride and Winona halls and shop
repair. Len Wahsise has a student
to whom he teaches code and how to
maintain the shop. His student is
Bensen Gibsen, who is on a special
program and reports to shop at 2:30
p.m. after he finishes his academic
program at the high school.
During the past month Alfred
Hawk, Justin Pinkham and Owens
Yallup have been helping Mr. Car!
AUTO SHOP
The boys in the auto shop have
just finished repairing the school bus
and the paint shop boys did a paint
job on it, so now it looks like a new
bus and in good running order.
Another job that was just com
pleted was the repairing of the big
army truck. It is on its feet and able
to run again.
The auto shop inherited a new
boy. Earl has worked on cars before
so he is already initiated in the art
of bing a "grease monkey."
NAVAJO CARPENTERS
VISIT SALEM HI
March 4, 1952 was an educational
field trip for the fourth year Nava;o
boys in the afternoon 1 to 4 p.m.
class.
The eight boys present were Wal
lace Jackson, Nelson Jackson, Ken
neth Lee, Charlie Peshlakai, Frank
lin Roanhorse, Roland Widehat,
Bobbie Tracy and Wallace Yellow
shirt. Mr. Holmes, Shop Instructor,
was along as Teacher-guide.
The field trip was very profitable
as the boys were shown through all
the Industrial Arts class rooms where
the Salem High School instructors
were happy to explain and show
what was being done in their classes
by their students.
Of great interest to the Navajo
carpenter boys was the woodshops
and all its power equipment. Mr.
Davis of Salem High School ex
plained to the boys how their shop
was organized and operated, the
different machinery in the shops,
showed how certain power tools
worked and then took the Navajo
carpenters through the supply rooms,
paint and spray room, and storage
rooms where many of the Salem
High School students had various
projects that they had been working
on. Our boys expressed much in
terest in these projects and also in
the projects being made by the night
school classes.
ENTERTAIN OPTIMISTS
A smoke signal sent up by the
Portland Optimist club was an
swered by the Indian club on March
12.
We dressed in rooms at the hotel
and were ready to dance at 12:30 at
the luncheon meeting of the Opti
mist club. Mr. LaVatta is a member
of the club. Mrs. Brannon was a
sneaker and Mr. Uentillie read the
club creed in Navajo.
The hotel people were very nice
to us. We were given rides up and
down in the elevators. One opera
tor took the qirls to the ton floor
which is the ninth floor. Who was
it that screamed when the elevator
showed, qirls?
Sm^e we brought lunches to eat
just before getting to Portland we
”p-en't expecting any from the Oo-
t;mist club. When thev invited us
♦o eat vre found that we were to
ha’m a full meal. There were even
and waitresses going bac1'
and fo th for our benefit. The lunch
eon ’was greatly enjoyed and appre-
c’n'ed
At 2 33 Mr. LaVatta decided we
needed exercise after our big meal,
and took us for a vzalk. We stopped
at a broadcasting station, KPOT.
Thev showed us an interesting time.
At the mike the Northwest group
sang two songs and the Navajo
c-roup sang one. Orin Allen and
Pauline Brown were interviewed on
their vocations at Chemawa and
got to act as disc jockeys.
Wo arrived on the campus at 5:30,
a group of tired but very happy
Indians.
Mrs. Johannaber and Mr. Uentillie
accompanied the club on the bus.
—Augustine Phillips and Thelma
Dick, Grade 11.
The boys are now looking forward
to o:her educational field trips when
they can visit some local saw-mills
and lumber supply houses. They
have shown by their conduct on this
trip that the will be welcomed back
to Salem High School any time and
are prepared to go on other educa-
iional field trips.