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Greetings 405 listener!
The 405 airs over KMMR Radio Station. At 5 Minutes past 4 PM. Normally each M-F week day of the year. Here on the website we'll get it posted for you within a few hours, normally.
Your neighbor and website maintainer,
D.J. Rasmussen
I wanna again welcome you to the four zero five coffee break. Guys, the weekend's almost here. Longest day of the year, today or tomorrow, depending on who you ask. Get you a cup of coffee, glass iced tea. Let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring weight, $6.24. 550 pound steer calf, $3.94 a pound. A butcher hog in Omaha, 65¢. And a 100 pound fat lamb in billing will fetch you $2.54 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Backward, turn backward, old time in your flight. Make me a child again just for tonight. Mother, come back from the echoless shore. Take me again to your heart as of yore. Kiss from my forehead the furrows of care.
OK Solberg:Smooth the few silver threads out of my hair. Over my slumbers, your loving watch keep. Rock me to sleep, mother. Rock me to sleep. Oh, yes.
OK Solberg:Backward turned backward, a poem by Elizabeth Allen. You know what? We haven't looked at an old Phillips County newspaper for some time now. Well, today's the day. Look what I found.
OK Solberg:From Thursday, 03/09/1961, front page, the heading reads, Ben Franklin opening is tomorrow. Friday, March 10 is set for the grand opening of the new Ben Franklin store in Malta according to Walter Siegle, owner of the new store. Free gifts will be given to all as well as special prices on many articles for sale. The new store is one of the most modern in the country, Siegle states. Ben Franklin operates under a franchise distributor but is entirely locally owned.
OK Solberg:Siegle came to Malta from Sheridan, Wyoming where he was the manager of the JCPenney store there. He and his family are living in the house formerly formerly occupied by Harvey Larson. The building where the new store is located was built by Bill Larcombe of Glasgow and Jay Russell Larcombe of Malta. End of quote. End of article.
OK Solberg:Did you hear that? Do you remember the Ben Franklin store? Oh, I certainly do. Yes. The memories.
OK Solberg:Bub's daddy bubblegum and Monkey's trading cards and all the music. But did you also hear that Sigleys are now living in the house formerly occupied by Harvey Larson? Does anyone remember which house Harvey Larson lived in? I bet you do. I love that small town flair.
OK Solberg:That's the way we identify in Malta, isn't it? Oh, yes. It is. It isn't a street address. 538 South Seventh Street East.
OK Solberg:Who's gonna know where that is? I live in the old Larry Matthews house right next to where Mike and Lorna Lang lived, you know, right across the street from Gary and Nancy Knudson. Oh, yes. That's the way we identify. And I like it.
OK Solberg:Oh, how I love it. So with the clock ticking, I have to tell you this true story. I might have told you before, but I'm gonna tell you again. In 1964, when I started Malta Elementary School, I had a friend in my class other than Todd Smith, and his name was Danny McAfee. Now Danny invited many of us to his birthday party, and of course, it was at his house.
OK Solberg:It's the same house missus Tom Moran lives in today. So we went to the party. Oh, and Todd got sick from eating too many roasted marshmallows, but it was a great time for me. This little seven year old country boy named Orvin now had another building I was familiar with, Danny McAfee's house. And guys, the school bus drove down that street every morning going to the high school to drop off the kids on the east side of the gym.
OK Solberg:So every day I can see Danny's house, and I can say, I know that house. Now it may not sound very important, but it was to me when I was a kid. Remember, I lived 27 miles out in the country and I only knew places in Malta where my dad or mom took me, so my world was expanding. Well, Danny McAfee and his family moved away the next year. So realize his family vacated that house in 1965.
OK Solberg:That is sixty years ago. Well, just a couple of months passed, I'm talking this year, 2025, I'm over at Bullard's and there's a good conversation going on, and John Demarais is telling that his neighbor, missus Rosemary Veseth, has moved out of the house next to him, you know, the old granite house. So Marilyn asked, so where does Rosemary live now? John starts explaining it as we do in Malta, across from so and so and next to you know who. Well, I'm listening and I can tell the street it's on, and I jokingly say, oh, in the old McAfee house.
OK Solberg:I said it as a joke thinking I'd get a blank stare, but no. No. No. No. John, he didn't even stumble.
OK Solberg:He looked over at me and he said, no. The house right next door to it. Oh, the greatness of Malta. Savor it, cherish it, don't gloss over it. John knew 60 years later where Maccathees had lived.
OK Solberg:And as for Rosemary, well, she's living in the old Frank and Sophie LePlant house. Remember the days of old. Consider the years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will show you your elders, and they will tell you. Deuteronomy 32-7.
OK Solberg:Yep. Ask your elders, and John is one of those elders in the know. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.