Imperial Valley press., 1933-05-15
ACTIVITIES AT CENTRAL UNION

For the purpose of nominating
officers for 1884. the junior col
lege assembled Thursday morning.
Earl Ritter, president, read pas
sages from the constitution that
explained election procedure. Elec-
ton will be he next week. Nom
inees for president are Melvin Will
by, Pierce Shibley, Laurence Hart
zog, and Margaret Hill; for vice
president Joe Woodbridge, Gerald
Keesee, and Meryal Meadows; for
executive members, Margaret Plem-
ons. Richard Binder.
Future Farmers of America have
been conducting contest of pro-
jects. Eliminating contests have
included a contest within the
school. one within the county, and
there will be one with the state.
Since there is no other F. F. A. in
Imperial Valley, the Ell Centre
chapter will represent the county
in the Southern California contest.
Paul Thornton, adviser, has select
ed the following boys to exhibit
their projects in the contest: John
Weiss, whose project is dairy pro-
J duction; T. j. Payne, hogs; Don
McElhaney, truck crops; Bill Du-
Bois, poultry, meat production;
John Glass. dairy calf raising;
Harland Daily, milk testing and
dairy management. These boys
have completed their projects which
will be judged some time between
May Is and 20 by E. w. Everett,
regional supervisor and j. A. Nc
Phee, chief of the bureau of voca-
tional education. Prizes consist
ing of F. F. A. awards will be CIV
en- to those winning the contest.
Associated Women Students of
the junior college are planning a
pot luck to be given Monday eve
ming at the high school cafeteria.
The purpose of this meeting is to
elect officers of the coming year
and to finish all business of the
present year. Elsie Mitchell has
charge of arrangements for the
pot luck.
According to Laurence Hartzog,
j. C. athletic manager, the athletic
season for the junior college is
practically at an end With the
exception of practice games with
the high school, there will be no
other activities this year.
Speedball finals for the G.. A.
A. first teams were held Wednes-
day afternoon. In the game be-
tween the Green and Purple teams
the Puppies won with 9 to A
score. In the, game between the
Orange and Red teams the Or
, anges won, 6-3. Captains for the
speedball teams were Green, Yosh-
, iko, Kubota; Purple, Blanche Goss;
Orange, Alice Waterman, and Red,
Marie Yukawa. Baseball finals
, tennis finals the week later. At
, present the girls are planning to
have their final meeting May 81,
however the date is tentative.
In hopes to simplify the difficult
ties that incoming freshmen us
+ ually have when they begin to Sc
( lect their high school courses, the
: Warrior -Nomad staff has spent a
very busy week in obtaining inter-
views on every department in high
school so that they may write
brief articles describing the courses
that are available both in high
school and junior college. This
5 large edition paper will be printed
May %, and copies will be sent to
graduates of rural schools and of
Wilson grammar school.
E j. G.. semester finals begin Fri
e day, May 26, according to the jun
] ior college manual.
: Agriculture contests open to all
t F. F. A. chapters in Southern Cali
fornia will be held Saturday, May
20 in Ontario. The contests are
: sponsored by the Chaffey high
E school. Central is entering four
r teams. Gilbert House, Eugene
E Shoffner, j. Dyer make up the
D dairy cattle A team; Tom Payne
Giles Bellamy, John Glass, and
Gene Veliquette, dairy cattle B;
Martin Weiss, j. Weiss, D. Bell,
livestock A; Eugene Napier, T. j.
Payne, r. Adams, livestock B.
The Ell Centro chapter of the F.
, +. A. has been named by the F..
F. A. executive committee as one of
the few California chapters to rep
resent the state in the National F..
F. A. chapter contest that Is to be
held the latter part of the sum-
: mer. The purpose of this contest
e is to determine which chapter in
t the nation has made the greatest
: advance during the year. The
t chapters are judged on ID the pro-
: prain of work to be attempted
h during the year, the report of
c which must be submitted to the
executive committee at the first
e OF the year; Cd the monthly re-
: ports carrying out the points on
S the program; CD the final annual
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