The Indian Leader

VOCATIONAL NEWS

Blacksmith and Welding: James Welch is repairing the banisters in Keokuk hall.

Spencer Fire and Mose Tepiew are making a backstop for the baseball diamond.

Peter O'Kimosh has repaired the incinerator and is now working on window curtains.

Frank Hitchens is making a safety device for the elevator in the bakery shop. -Spencer Fire.

Bakery: The mixers for this week are Ed Bruner and LaVern Aitkens. On pastry are Joe Ashkanok, Eugene Azure and James Calles. Lawrence Morris is in charge of the bread room. Alphonse Ducept is in charge of the outside detail. Joe Provost is in charge of the lower section of the bakery.

We made 6 runs of bread, 800 yellow drop cookies, hot cross buns and butter rolls, 10 pans of cobbler, 60 suntan layer cakes, 800 blueberry muffins, 125 apple pies, 1400 biscuits, 17 pans of cottage pudding, 125 cherry pies, and 17 Prince of Wales cakes. -Floyd Skenandore.

Carpentry and Cabinet Making: William Beauregard has finished repairing a desk for Mr. Carmody's office. Kenny Robidoux and John Harrison are repairing two lawn chairs for Pocahontas hall's lawns.

The full-time boys are glassing in Mr. Johnson's rear porch. New windows and door frames are being made to replace the old ones. William Conger has finished wainscoting Mr. Jackson's kitchen.

We are making new truck ladders and benches for the transportation department. A. D. Bunch, with the help of trade-finders, made six new potato cutters. William Conger and Acey Redleaf made a job ticket rack for the auto shop. -William Conger and Jack Blalock.

Landscape and Gardening: We received a consignment of single comb white Leghorn baby chicks. These are under the care of Alcario Gonzales. The Rhode Island Red chicks which were recently moved from the battery brooder to the colony brooder are enjoying their new quarters and growing fine. When moved the entire lot weighed 6 ounces a piece which is 2 ounces above government standards of weight. A few outstanding individuals weighed over 9 ounces.

John Wiggins has been discing, harrowing and planking the individual garden projects and the ground is almost ready for planting. As the boys will not stay at Haskell throughout the summer, only cool season crops will be planted. Boys who have the projects are John Wiggins, Alcario Gonzales, James Pruner, Alvin Hart, John Jake and Fred Goodwin.

All the boys of the aggie department lent a hand in the preparation of soil for hotbeds, previous to the planting. Two parts of good dirt with one part of sand and one part of well rotted fertilizer were thoroughly mixed and the entire mass was treated against germs, weeds, seeds and insects. One pint of formaldehyde was dissolved with this mixture. This also results in a chemical reaction rejuvenating the soil and causing strong plants. The same reaction is experienced when the soil can be heated through. -Alcario Gonzales.

Electric Shop: J. C. McClure and Clarence Hicks installed the repaired motor in the disposal plant and they are now working in the girls' gymnasium.

Ray Mike is putting quarter mold in the lower dining room.

Wilson Burns installed several ground wire guards on poles protecting wires and life.

Clifford Walkingstick is installing a ceiling outlet and two duplex in the Faris cottage.

The boys are through helping electricians from Topeka in changing our primary 2300 volt line around.

We miss George Ogden and Milton Petitt as they are in the hospital having their tonsils removed and we wish them a nice big chicken dinner.

Plumbing: The plumbing force has been kept busy doing various maintenance jobs about the campus such as repairing water lines for the hot beds, repairing flush valves and flushing devices and covering table tops with sheet metal.

The master custodian for the disposal plant was Ira Issues who was assisted by Jack Reynolds.

The main topic for class discussion has been mostly on lead and how to solder it. This type of work calls for a great amount of skill.

The plumbing shop has been called upon to do other work outside of maintenance work. We made covers for the planters which belong to agricultural department and trays for footbaths, the latter being in all dormitories. -John Willis.

Machine Shop and Power Plant: The machine shop and engineer classes are being taken together in the first period each morning under Mr. Couper. This change was made due to Mr. Jackson's absence, who is away on a trip to the Salem Indian school, Chemawa, Oregon. Some of the topics discussed were dry pipes in locomotive boilers, and pistons in feed water pumps.

Some of the full-time and trade-finding students are busy in the boiler room, cleaning and painting pumps, threading machines and boiler fronts.

Everette Renville is assembling the small feed pump that was recently overhauled in the machine shop.

Malcolm Queton reinstalled a smaller electric motor to the centrifugal pump in the tank room.

Thomas Herrick is making a valve stem for the sand blast. Marvin Little Hoe made some angle plates in the shaper. Solon Hill and Norman Fremont are running a steam and return line from the Anderson cottage to the new cottage being built nearby.

Peter Shawanibin is making a frame for a motor hookup on the milling machine. Ray Jones is making a pulley for the surface grinder. Henry Pemma is making an arbor for the milling machine. Clarence Cline and John Red Eagle are making a blower for the gas furnace. Dewey Corn is working on the lathe, straightening threads on the small portable grinder shaft.

Several of the boys are making anvils which are to be chromium-plated and put on display in the vocational building. Julian Gentry, who is in charge of the anvil producers, is doing very good work in showing the boys how it is done. Ben Naranjo is working on the lathe, turning down mandrels to the proper size. -Robert Owens and Joe Tucker.
Drafting Department: Do we know our multiplication tables up to and including the twelves? Hardly, but we are being drilled in them, nevertheless. We have a lot of fun at times as well as a lot of headache problems. We know how to multiply 2 x 2 but solid geometry is something else, to say nothing of square root, ratio and fractions. We have them all and a lot more.

Our instructor demonstrated the method used in making B and W, black and white prints, this week on a press loaned him by the Bruning company, Inc. The B and W print may be made and ready for use in four minutes. It requires 20 minutes to use a blue print made from the same tracing. Solve the little problems and make the big ones little.

Maintenance Department: Last week we built a cabinet in each of the gymnasiums to store the pianos. We also repaired some windows in Winona hall and the school building.

We made a number of cross-arms and ground wire posts for the electric shop for use in their work on the transformers, and also did some work on the platform for the transformers.

Our work on the new apartment in Keokuk hall is nearing completion. This work consisted of building partitions, cutting door openings, leveling up the old floor in order to lay in the new one, hanging doors, building kitchen cabinets, and making and hanging window and door screens. As soon as this work is completed, we hope to go to work on a new cottage.

Masonry: We studied foundation walls and footings. This includes definition, thickness of walls for different types of construction, correct thickness and widths of footings, proportioning the concrete, water-proofing walls, drainage, and the correct placing of concrete in wall forms.

Jobs Completed: Eli Christy, Pat Mackey and Steve Dubois have completed plastering in the Jackson residence; George Gokey and Dess Neal repaired and re-pointed some stone masonry at Winona hall; George Buckheart has finished a plastering job in the music room; Pete Houle and Ellison Waters have completed a small patch plastering job at the girls' gymnasium; and the whole force repaired the concrete floor in Keokuk hall. Hiram Poler.

Painting and Decorating: We studied the time required by average painters to do a job and the cost of painting thereof.

Levi Horsechief is our shop foreman and is refinishing tables. John Granbois and William Cobb are working on a rush order at Mr. Anderson's hotbed where they are putting in glass.

John Lowe, Wesley Wishkeno, John W. Jake and Harry Wilson are painting in the Jackson residence. They have completed three rooms and have two more to be painted. Raymond McClure, Roscoe Wahwahsuck and a trade-finder, Sam Brown, are painting in Mr. Bowen's apartment in Keokuk hall.

Completed Job Orders: Painted pipes and radiators, stained and varnished tables; refinished two chairs, painted curbing and no parking signs, painted fence posts, refinished office chair. Harry Wilson.

Auto Shop: We are studying electricity and magnetism. There are many applications of electricity on our automobiles and electrical equipment on cars are increasing.

Cyril Renville has overhauled a clutch and done several other jobs. John Van White has worked over the Fordson roller and has been winding some coils for electrical experiments. Harold Wright has been repairing tires as they came in.

Tractors, cars and trucks are keeping us busy. Two tractor jobs have been turned out so far this week.

Robert Carney has been checking over V8's, changing spark plugs, testing vacuum and compression and improving ignition timing in some cases.

Melvin DuMarce is the battery man and has done several other jobs besides. George Staples and Robert Bradley have been doing work on an Oakland motor.

Perry Skenandore and Allen Dougherty have done tractor work and have taken up some other jobs.

CARPENTERETTES

Our "little" carpenterettes are progressing rapidly. A lunch box has been completed by Marianne Irving.

Some small articles such as H. I.'s have been finished by Constance Folster and Matilda Vetter. Matilda also made toothbrush holders; picture frames were made by Madge Skinner and Eunice Brown. Mary Everett and Evelyn Teller made skirt hangers. Let's make use of the skirt hangers, gals.

The following girls were more ambitious than the rest: A magazine rack was made by Thelma Thompson; a tea table by Margie Ware; and book stands by Cornelia Bittenbender and LaVina Masqua. Evelyn Teller.