OK Solberg: 00:00

Wanna again welcome you to the 4:05 coffee break. Nice and cool out there, isn't it, guys? Got a rain shower looking good. Get your cup of coffee, glass iced tea, bottle of water. Let's see what's happening.

OK Solberg: 00:11

Spring wheat, $5.57 a bushel. Going down a bit. Harvest must be here. But a 550 pound steer calf is holding strong, $3.98 on the top end. Butcher hog in Iowa, 56¢ a pound, and a 100 pound fat lamb in Billings is worth $2.15.

OK Solberg: 00:34

But guys, there's more, much more. And the word for today is, and the password is, irreparable. Little Jack Horner sat in the corner eating her curds and whey, he put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and made irreparable damage to his Christmas pie. Irreparable, an injury or loss that makes it impossible to rectify or repair. The fire caused irreparable damage to the old library.

OK Solberg: 01:12

After their big fight, their friendship suffered an irreparable break during the phone. Dropping the phone in the water made it irreparable, so she had to buy a new one. That word is brought to you today by way of the world champion of one liners. See, to have a good one liner, you have to possess a vast vocabulary, and the world champion of one liners has a great vocabulary. Now we've had the word for today, so why not follow it with a bible verse for today?

OK Solberg: 01:48

And it is study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth. Second Timothy two fifteen. Yes. So good to study. Okay.

OK Solberg: 02:06

Okay. Did you listen yesterday? I finally found Gary Salisbury. And do you know what, guys? He's buried right here in the Malta Cemetery.

OK Solberg: 02:17

I want you to put flowers on his grave come Memorial Day. I'm gonna put flowers on his grave before that. He served our country, went to Vietnam, and then died tragically on Christmas Day nineteen sixty seven as he was hitchhiking. Our hats are off to you, Gary. And David, Smoke, Rummel, help me find his grave.

OK Solberg: 02:43

Go south at Derek Davis's house, find the military flagpole, and go south five more headstones, and there lies Gary. He went where he was sent by his uncle Sam, stood tall in the jungle, proud to honor his country. This one's for you, Gary. And thank you to all the Vietnam veterans out there. So a friend named Mike asked me about a guy who returned from Vietnam and got killed hitchhiking.

OK Solberg: 03:17

I was on the search, but without a name or a date, it was a hard task. Then Saturday, the second Mike, Mike Lowney, told me a story of a guy driving his two door hardtop with a live seagull held in his hand. That led me to another Mike, and that 3rd Mike told me possibly that was Gary Salisbury. Now the first newspaper article I found with Gary's death notification in it was Lima, Ohio. And right next to his article was an article about an attractive housewife that murdered her son with rat poisoning.

OK Solberg: 03:57

Are you kidding me? Is that tragic or what? Then when I found Gary's article in the 12/28/1967 edition of the Phillips County newspaper, I found the Pancrats Fire out in Regina. Well, guys, I visit with Keith and Mark all the time. Oh, they remember the fire, and now we have that commonality to share.

OK Solberg: 04:23

So I wanted to say to my listening audience, when you go and search with an eager expectation of some finding something of value, curiosity is a precious tool. I have it. Curiosity is a precious tool, something we take for granted often. But with curiosity and the ability to do in-depth research in this day and age, we never run out of interesting topics to discuss. Tune in tomorrow, and I'll tell you about an attractive 35 year old housewife that poisoned her son with rat poison.

OK Solberg: 05:01

Yes. It's tragic. But when we look at ill fated happenings like that, when we look at them, we can learn to feel exceedingly fortunate for living the lives we live. I want you to know guys, in my 68 years of life, I have never once had someone try to poison me. Count your blessings, name them one by one, count your blessings, see what God has done.

OK Solberg: 05:30

One of my blessings is nobody ever tried to poison me. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.