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pened and we all listened to the radio for the rest of the after- noon while we pulled and ate the taffy. It was fun growing up in the small town. Mostly we inherited our clothes from cousins, neigh- bors, or older siblings or else they were handmade after we got to 4H. Being the oldest did not mean I got all the new clothes. The first new purchase I can re- member getting especially for me was a green “car coat” with off- white leather collars and cuff ac- cents from Fantles. My dad called it my dog coat because of the collar. I also had to get a size larger than normal because my arms were so long they stuck out of the sleeves funny. To me it was a regular dress coat. CENTENNIAL: In 1961, I was 11 years old when the Centennial came to Yankton. Five of my fam- ily got the measles in April and mom and I had to keep running to keep everyone pacified. All of them were sleeping in my par- ents’ bedroom because that was the only big bed downstairs. I don’t recall where my parents slept at that time. Anyway, once everyone was back up and around, I got the measles. (No that didn’t mean everyone waited on me. They went out to play and I was left in the house alone!) To get back to my story, my mom never went to medical doc- tors, she used a chiropractor. As normal, when everyone was well again we all came to Yankton for a checkup. The day was Wednes- day of Centennial week and we got to town in time to watch the parade which was HUGE. My aunt had made each of the girls a long yellow dress with tiny flow- ers on it (yellow was never my fa- vorite color) so that we all matched. I don’t remember what the boys wore. Once everyone had been checked over we got to go to the midway area where all the rides were. My job was to watch the others while they took their rides. Finally about 3:30, mom said it was time to go. I was upset that we had to leave because I had not been able to take an older kids ride. Mom gave in so I could have “one” ride. I chose the Spi- der (you know the one with 8 legs with seating attached). I was the only one in my car. In the middle of the ride, my mom made the operator stop to let me off. Talk about disappointed! It seemed that my oldest brother was regressing back to his baby- hood. We rushed over to the chi- ropractor’s home where he worked with my brother and brought him back to his normal self. I sure felt bad about missing my ride but I later found out that my cousin wasn’t so lucky after his bout with the measles. He ended up being mentally handi- capped. Looking back we were lucky. HIGH SCHOOL: I don’t know how my parents managed it, but I was lucky enough to go to Mount Marty High School. My class had about 45 students. I thought this was wonderful. We wore uni- forms so being smartly dressed was not a problem for this very short, extremely shy girl. When I went to enroll on the third floor of Bede Hall, the principal’s desk was so high, the principal could- n’t see me until my mom brought me around the desk. I guess I was only about 4’6” at the time. For the first two years all classes were held on the third floor with only physical education held elsewhere. It was in the base- ment! Can you imagine 10 min- utes to shower, dress and get up four flights of stairs in time for the next class? In my sophomore year, I sur- prised my Latin teacher by being one of three students to pass the National Latin Test with a score high enough to get recognized PRESS & DAKOTAN ■ SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2011 YANKTON 150: PAGE 3D 909 Broadway, Yankton, SD • 665-3406 Four Seasons Fabric Jon and Misty Nockels have owned the fabric store for 14 years. They are an authorized BERNINA dealer offering sales and service on BERNINA machines. They also offer fabric for quilts and crafts, patterns, books, notions and more. Sign up for our Newsletter at [email protected] Monthly classes, sales & events Twitter - FourseasonsFABR. Call or e-mail to enter the Four Seasons Fabric Riverboat Days Quilt Show and win a new BERNINA! Asher, Sky, Noelle & Alexander Nockels BY GARY WOOD The Press & Dakotan It’s been nearly eight years since we moved to Yankton. Our move here has been a life-changing ex- perience and I have the commu- nity — our readers, our advertisers and especially the great employees of our com- pany — to thank for that. I moved to Yankton in Sep- tember of 2003 to take the reins of the newspaper as publisher when it was owned by Morris Communications. They were a good company to work for but it was always difficult to partici- pate and donate back to the community for all the support we see. As I’ve said before, the paper was corporately owned for nearly 30 years and now that we are once again locally owned and operated we’ve been able to give back more than ever before. We were afforded the oppor- tunity to become local owners of the old- est newspaper in the Dakotas back in March of 2008; we couldn’t have done it without the help of First Dakota National Bank. Many thanks to Larry Ness and his crew for working with us to make it a real- ity. We feel fortunate to be one of two lo- cally-owned and operated newspapers serving the Yankton market. Well, on to what this is all about — cel- ebrating 150 years as a business and the opportunity we’ve had to sup- port the “Mother City of the Dakotas” as the community cele- brates the same 150 year time frame. We’ve had great support from the business community to provide this historical piece to our readers. I hope you enjoy the stories, the historical front pages and the ads. The front pages you see have local, re- gional, national or international significance and some will be remembered by many in the community. The stories of our newspaper, the city of Yankton and the region are some of the most newsworthy of their day and many had great impact on how this community has changed and de- veloped over the years. You’ll notice that most of the ads are a little bit of history themselves. Many of our advertisers/business partners have taken this opportunity to tell the commu- nity more about who they are, how they got started in Yankton and where they are today. All have had an impact on the growth and development of our commu- nity. They are what keep us here and pro- vide for the financial well being of our fam- ilies and friends. The most important message I can con- vey here is THANK YOU! Thanks to our readers and advertisers for trusting us to be the best source of local news and sports, the best vehicle to convey your message to the community. Thank you to the people of Yankton and the region for the welcome my family and I received when we moved here. Thank you for allow- ing us to be a part of the family of Yankton and thank you for reading. Enjoy learning the history of Yankton and the many businesses that have partici- pated in our celebration of 150 years. This truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and we’re honored and humbled by that. As we look forward to the next 150 years and the changes it will bring in how we deliver the best local news and sports to our readers and the best advertising vehicle to our businesses I’m just disappointed I won’t be here to see that day! Gary WOOD P&D ARCHIVE PHOTO The offices of the Press & Dakotan, circa the 1930s. The Press & Dakotan has been published continuously for 150 years, more than 100 of which have been at its current location. It is the oldest newspaper in the Dakotas and is once again locally- owned. Wood: We Have Enjoyed Our Role In Telling The Town’s Story Yankton: A Great Place To Call Home Reflection From Page 1D REFLECTION | PAGE 6D From Carol Shuff Winter: “This picture was taken after the Arickara Homecoming parade in September of 1956. I am on the left in the official Drill Team uniform. Next to me are Ruth Huber Highland and Dee Cook Roach; they are wearing Native American costumes, as many students did because a lot of us walked in the parade. Next to them is Donna Mikkelsen DeJean who was a member of the YHS band. Next to her is Janet Magorien Shuff, wearing the real ‘50s scarf, plaid shirt and rolled up jeans! In front is Barbara Harris with our pets. The picture was taken in front of my house at 500 Mulberry.” ABOVE — From Leona Sparks: A photo of the Meloin and Leona Sparks family taken in June 1961 around the time of the Dakota Territory centennial celebration in Yankton. Pictured are, from left: Leona, Meloin, Nancy, Ray and Vicki Sparks. BELOW — From Amberlee Willcuts: This photo of the Yankton County Court- house was taken shortly before it was torn down in 2003 and replaced by the Yankton County Government Center.
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pened and we all listened to theradio for the rest of the after-noon while we pulled and ate thetaffy.
It was fun growing up in thesmall town. Mostly we inheritedour clothes from cousins, neigh-bors, or older siblings or elsethey were handmade after we gotto 4H. Being the oldest did notmean I got all the new clothes.The first new purchase I can re-member getting especially for mewas a green “car coat” with off-white leather collars and cuff ac-cents from Fantles. My dadcalled it my dog coat because ofthe collar. I also had to get a sizelarger than normal because myarms were so long they stuck outof the sleeves funny. To me it wasa regular dress coat.
CENTENNIAL: In 1961, I was11 years old when the Centennialcame to Yankton. Five of my fam-ily got the measles in April andmom and I had to keep runningto keep everyone pacified. All ofthem were sleeping in my par-ents’ bedroom because that wasthe only big bed downstairs. Idon’t recall where my parentsslept at that time. Anyway, once
everyone was back up andaround, I got the measles. (Nothat didn’t mean everyonewaited on me. They went out toplay and I was left in the housealone!)
To get back to my story, mymom never went to medical doc-tors, she used a chiropractor. Asnormal, when everyone was wellagain we all came to Yankton fora checkup. The day was Wednes-day of Centennial week and wegot to town in time to watch theparade which was HUGE. Myaunt had made each of the girls along yellow dress with tiny flow-ers on it (yellow was never my fa-
vorite color) so that we allmatched. I don’t remember whatthe boys wore. Once everyonehad been checked over we got togo to the midway area where allthe rides were. My job was towatch the others while they tooktheir rides.
Finally about 3:30, mom said itwas time to go. I was upset thatwe had to leave because I hadnot been able to take an olderkids ride. Mom gave in so I couldhave “one” ride. I chose the Spi-der (you know the one with 8legs with seating attached). I wasthe only one in my car. In themiddle of the ride, my mom
made the operator stop to let meoff. Talk about disappointed! Itseemed that my oldest brotherwas regressing back to his baby-hood. We rushed over to the chi-ropractor’s home where heworked with my brother andbrought him back to his normalself. I sure felt bad about missingmy ride but I later found out thatmy cousin wasn’t so lucky afterhis bout with the measles. Heended up being mentally handi-capped. Looking back we werelucky.
HIGH SCHOOL: I don’t knowhow my parents managed it, but Iwas lucky enough to go to MountMarty High School. My class hadabout 45 students. I thought thiswas wonderful. We wore uni-forms so being smartly dressedwas not a problem for this veryshort, extremely shy girl. When Iwent to enroll on the third floorof Bede Hall, the principal’s deskwas so high, the principal could-n’t see me until my mom broughtme around the desk. I guess I wasonly about 4’6” at the time. For
the first two years all classeswere held on the third floor withonly physical education heldelsewhere. It was in the base-ment! Can you imagine 10 min-utes to shower, dress and get upfour flights of stairs in time forthe next class?
In my sophomore year, I sur-prised my Latin teacher by beingone of three students to pass theNational Latin Test with a scorehigh enough to get recognized
PRESS & DAKOTAN ■ SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 2011 YANKTON 150: PAGE 3D
909 Broadway, Yankton, SD • 665-3406 Four Seasons Fabric
Jon and Misty Nockels have owned the fabric store for 14 years. They are an authorized BERNINA dealer offering sales and service on BERNINA machines. They also offer fabric for quilts and crafts, patterns, books, notions and more.
Sign up for our Newsletter at [email protected] Monthly classes, sales & events Twitter - FourseasonsFABR.
Call or e-mail to enter the Four Seasons Fabric
Riverboat Days Quilt Show and win a new BERNINA! Asher, Sky, Noelle &
Alexander Nockels
BY GARY WOODThe Press & Dakotan
It’s been nearly eight years since wemoved to Yankton. Our movehere has been a life-changing ex-perience and I have the commu-nity — our readers, ouradvertisers and especially thegreat employees of our com-pany — to thank for that.
I moved to Yankton in Sep-tember of 2003 to take the reinsof the newspaper as publisherwhen it was owned by MorrisCommunications. They were agood company to work for butit was always difficult to partici-pate and donate back to thecommunity for all the supportwe see.
As I’ve said before, thepaper was corporately ownedfor nearly 30 years and now that we areonce again locally owned and operatedwe’ve been able to give back more thanever before. We were afforded the oppor-tunity to become local owners of the old-est newspaper in the Dakotas back inMarch of 2008; we couldn’t have done itwithout the help of First Dakota NationalBank. Many thanks to Larry Ness and hiscrew for working with us to make it a real-ity. We feel fortunate to be one of two lo-
cally-owned and operated newspapersserving the Yankton market.
Well, on to what this is all about — cel-ebrating 150 years as a business and the
opportunity we’ve had to sup-port the “Mother City of theDakotas” as the community cele-brates the same 150 year timeframe. We’ve had great supportfrom the business community toprovide this historical piece toour readers. I hope you enjoythe stories, the historical frontpages and the ads. The frontpages you see have local, re-gional, national or internationalsignificance and some will beremembered by many in thecommunity. The stories of ournewspaper, the city of Yanktonand the region are some of themost newsworthy of their dayand many had great impact on
how this community has changed and de-veloped over the years.
You’ll notice that most of the ads are alittle bit of history themselves. Many ofour advertisers/business partners havetaken this opportunity to tell the commu-nity more about who they are, how theygot started in Yankton and where they aretoday. All have had an impact on thegrowth and development of our commu-nity. They are what keep us here and pro-
vide for the financial well being of our fam-ilies and friends.
The most important message I can con-vey here is THANK YOU! Thanks to ourreaders and advertisers for trusting us tobe the best source of local news andsports, the best vehicle to convey yourmessage to the community. Thank you to
the people of Yankton and the region forthe welcome my family and I receivedwhen we moved here. Thank you for allow-ing us to be a part of the family of Yanktonand thank you for reading.
Enjoy learning the history of Yanktonand the many businesses that have partici-pated in our celebration of 150 years. This
truly is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity andwe’re honored and humbled by that. As welook forward to the next 150 years and thechanges it will bring in how we deliver thebest local news and sports to our readersand the best advertising vehicle to ourbusinesses I’m just disappointed I won’t behere to see that day!
Gary
WOODP&D ARCHIVE PHOTO
The offices of the Press & Dakotan, circa the 1930s. The Press & Dakotan has been published continuously for 150 years,more than 100 of which have been at its current location. It is the oldest newspaper in the Dakotas and is once again locally-owned.
Wood: We Have Enjoyed OurRole In Telling The Town’s Story
Yankton: A Great Place To Call Home
ReflectionFrom Page 1D
REFLECTION | PAGE 6D
From Carol Shuff Winter: “This picture was taken after the Arickara Homecoming parade in September of1956. I am on the left in the official Drill Team uniform. Next to me are Ruth Huber Highland and Dee CookRoach; they are wearing Native American costumes, as many students did because a lot of us walked inthe parade. Next to them is Donna Mikkelsen DeJean who was a member of the YHS band. Next to her isJanet Magorien Shuff, wearing the real ‘50s scarf, plaid shirt and rolled up jeans! In front is Barbara Harriswith our pets. The picture was taken in front of my house at 500 Mulberry.”
ABOVE — From Leona Sparks: A photo of the Meloin and Leona Sparks family taken in June 1961 aroundthe time of the Dakota Territory centennial celebration in Yankton. Pictured are, from left: Leona, Meloin,Nancy, Ray and Vicki Sparks. BELOW — From Amberlee Willcuts: This photo of the Yankton County Court-house was taken shortly before it was torn down in 2003 and replaced by the Yankton County GovernmentCenter.
