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ABBOTSFORD T RIBUNE PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1951
Donkey ball game will be attraction here Tuesday
A ball game that has the promise of being a good show will be played here, under the lights, at the Athletic Field, on Tuesday, June 19, at 8:15. Teams will be made up of players on the softball team and the National Guard and American Legion and several business men.
To make it easy for one of these fellows to get to the bases, the American Legion, which is sponsoring the game, has arranged to have donkey transportation, a service of questionable merit; in fact, the games will be played according to the whims of these trusty? mounts.
Admission will be 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children, tax included. The proceeds will be used for the benefi t of the American Legion Junior baseball team. Tickets are available from Melvin Nikolay or members of the American Legion.
June 19 is Achievement Day for Homemakers June 19 is Achievement Day for the Homemakers of Clark County. Registration begins at 11:00 o’clock at the armory at Neillsville. All clubs in the county are reminded to bring articles for exhibits. Each club will be allotted a certain space with name card for display. It is suggested that members responsible for the displays have them in order before registration.
The program will include community singing, vocal selections by Elaine Seibold and Corrine Hare. A one-act play, “The Exclusive Model,” will be given by the Curtiss Homemakers Club. Mrs. Leland Smiley will be the narrator.
THE TRIBUNE-P HONOGRAPH PUBLISHED IN ABBOTSFORD WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1981
Colby School Board discusses racial attitudes at high school
The Colby Board of Education decided Monday to recommend to the District Inservice Committee that use a portion of its allotted 1981-1982 time for a teacher training session focusing on racial prejudice.
The motion by the board at is regular monthly meeting followed a lengthy discussion of what board member Emil Luchterhand called “a serious problem” in the district, particularly at Colby High School. Luchterhand suggested that the board make the handling of racial prejudice a priority for some of its staff inservice time, stating that the group had “evaded the issue” until now.
Luchterhand referred to several instances of what he called prejudice against blacks. One, not a recent incident, occurred during a skit at Colby High, when a class officer referred to a Dr. Martin Luther King as “Dr. Martin Luther Coon.” Luchterhand said only a small group of students complained about the dubious joke, and he said they were discouraged by a teacher from carrying the protest further.
“That was a perfect opportunity to let the students know how wrong that attitude is, but it wasn’t taken,” he said.
He also focused on two recent incidents involved a social studies teacher who allegedly told racially prejudiced jokes in his classroom. “If he were working for me, he would have been fired on the spot,” Luchterhand said. The teacher was later laid off.
Other board members seemed reluctant to agree with him about prevalent such attitudes are at Colby High.
