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...Alsatian descent (he still has a faint Germanic accent absorbed from his parents), he learned to play "real loud" at barn dances. One of his fellow musicians used to protect himself from the Welk blare by putting cotton in his ears. Welk toured with small combos around Yankton...
Like many a U.S. minister, Adventist Rustad had looked enviously at the movie drive-in crowds. In Yankton, S. Dak. three years ago, he gathered a crowd for a drive-in religious service - only to have it melt away when an early snowstorm struck. When he went to Arizona, he tried again. Last year, with Adventist Elder Lawrence E. Davidson of Phoenix, he rented a small lot for the purpose. Services went so well that this year the Adventists took over two larger plots, one of them in the Negro section of town...
...interesting to know on what facts, or even estimates, this charge is based. The only actual studies of the water in the Missouri Basin have been made a committee of state engineers. These studies of the records for a fifty-year period show that the average annual flow at Yankton, S. Dak, is approximately 23,500,000 acre feet, which is more than 1,000,000 acre feet in excess of the amount estimated to be needed for all purposes. The figures have been checked by hydraulic engineers and include the records for the 12-years drought cycle from...
...filed by to shake the hands of Eleanor Roosevelt and Bess Truman. (The President received in the Red Room, for close friends.) The characters of the day turned out to be a farmer from Morris, Minn., and his wife. Anton Ettesvold had won a competition staged by a Yankton (S. Dak.) radio station as "the typical Midwest farmer." His reward was a trip to Washington, where he was invited to the inauguration by Mrs. Roosevelt...
Alvin Harvey Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, has been noted for outstanding research and writings in many economic fields since receiving his A.B. from Yankton (S.D.) College...