OK Solberg: 00:00

I wanna again welcome you to the four zero five Coffee Break. Guys, a new week. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea, beverage of your choice. Let's see what's going on. Spring wheat, $5.77 a bushel.

OK Solberg: 00:12

550 pound steer calf, $3.99 on the top end. Butcher hog in Iowa, 57¢ a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings, $2.16. But guys, there's more, much more. Okay. I have so much for you today, I better talk fast.

OK Solberg: 00:33

But I can't forget a bible verse because that's a must, and well, if I get carried away, I'll forget. Therefore, here it is. And yes, it's really in the bible. Do you see a man who is hasty in his words? There is more hope for a fool than for him.

OK Solberg: 00:53

Well, I I just told you I have so much to tell you, I better talk fast, and now I hear that a man who is hasty in his words is a fool. Okay. I'll try not to be foolish, but still tell you the score. I had a friend. I had a friend ask me about a guy who had been in Vietnam in the sixties and he was from Phillips County and he made it stateside and then he was killed while hitchhiking.

OK Solberg: 01:24

Tragedy, You guys know how I like to research old Phillips County history, but I didn't have a name and I didn't have a year. Guys, that's like hunting a shadow at midnight. But on the weekend, I was visiting with my friend Mary Pat, and in the conversation, she said that her cousin, Gary Salisbury, was killed while hitchhiking. Bingo. So now I have a name and I ask another friend named John to check out the old newspaper archives for Gary Salisbury.

OK Solberg: 02:04

Within minutes, John texts me back this write up from Lima, Ohio. It states, Gary l Salisbury 19 Malta, Montana, a soldier stationed at Fort Belvair, Virginia was hitchhiking near Bryan in Williams County Monday night when hit by a car and killed, and it happened on Christmas day of 1967. Looks like I get to go to the library again, and I did. Easy to find now. The last edition from 1967, front page picture and article.

OK Solberg: 02:49

Gary Lee Salisbury 19 of Malta was killed on Christmas night when he was struck by a car. And guys, you remember me talking about Ori Lubbers and how he gave Tim Bruckner and I a double decker box of chocolate covered cherries. Well, that was Ori's nephew. He was evidently walking along a road with two companions when he was killed. He was the son of Lila and Claire Salisbury.

OK Solberg: 03:22

Rest in peace, Gary. Thank you for serving our country. Thank you for serving our country as he was in Vietnam for eighteen months prior to the tragedy. But then, I see right beside Gary's picture is an article that reads, fire destroys Pankratz ranch shed and equipment. The Pankratz family lost a shed, a combine, a tractor, a farm head feed mixer, about 80 ton of hay, and about 30 pigs.

OK Solberg: 03:55

Well, it was big enough news that it even made the Regina news. It mentions the Pankratz fire as well and says nobody had a merry Christmas with that tragedy looming. They were thankful for Clarence Blunt who was able to remove a large truck before the fire made entrance to the building impossible. So guys, I knew I would find Gary Salisbury's death notice since I had a date. I didn't know that I'd find out about the Pankratz fire.

OK Solberg: 04:28

I wonder if Mark and Keith remember. I bet they do. But I know how you think I live in the past, so I was gonna balance out my act today by looking at a current PCN dated just a few days ago, last week's PCN. So I purchased a copy and went to my office to start to write. This is all gospel truth, guys.

OK Solberg: 04:52

But what I was gonna share from the current paper would be news from fifty years ago, to honestly prove to you that I do live in the past. But look what I found, 07/20/1975, Jack Kelly has been replaced by Thomas Thompson at the First Security Bank. That's true. That's my father-in-law. But listen to this one.

OK Solberg: 05:16

Under that, county agent Marco Minukian led the annual 4H ride. He was assisted by range conservationist Brian Kindle. Woah there, Bessie. I think Marco's younger than me, and I graduated in 1975. So I guess Marco took the county agent job when he was in junior high.

OK Solberg: 05:43

Just kidding, it's a mistake. It was supposed to be in the twenty five year ago column, but I found it funny. So I went over to the PCN just to see my friend Carrie Hould and see if she'd heard about it yet. She said, nope, Orvin. Didn't know that.

OK Solberg: 06:02

I said, Carrie, I don't wanna throw you under the bus, but you in newspapers or I on radio know that seldom do you hear anything from reading from the reading or listening public unless we did something wrong. Carrie laughed. She said, go ahead and mention it, it will cause a bit of laughter. Marco wasn't the county extension agent in 1975. Edit that.

OK Solberg: 06:30

Then one final item, next to Gary's death notice in the Lima Ohio newspaper, there's an interesting article right next to it. Just like the Pancreatz fire was right next to next to Gary's article in the PCN, right next to it was the heading rat poison kills man, mom held. The article begins, an attractive 35 year old housewife faced a hearing today on charges she murdered her teenage son by lacing his coffee with arsenic. Guys, I'm not making this up. And both cases are tragedies, even the third one with the Pancreatz fire.

OK Solberg: 07:15

But who in their right mind would write it up like that? An attractive housewife accused of killing son with rat poison. Why the word attractive? Is that the way they used to write? If so, I know what I'll tell you tomorrow.

OK Solberg: 07:34

An ugly man won the annual hog calling contest last week answers to the name of Orvin Solberg. Rest in peace, Gary. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.