06/18/2011

Rental cars – Priceline.com
 
Folks, I couldn’t believe that Hertz accepted my offer of $15/day (72% savings) for a full size rental car in Seattle following our cruise next February. With taxes and fees, $29/day plus $11/day for liability insurance. Visa covers the collision insurance. The add on expenses are nearly double the basic rental charge. Gary
 
 
Round Barn – Tickets to Cote’s opening dance
Message from Murl Watkins Hill (50): Dunseith, ND
 

Gary,

I was going through my High School scrapbook. I found dance tickets to Cote’s Opening Dance for May 14th, 1948. The second one I have

Is for July 29, 1948 with music by Wen Shuh. Ring any bells? It sure does for me. The D G on the ticket, I must have gone with

Darrald Grenier. Many good memories, Thanks Gary, Murl Watkins Hill

Murl, Your findings have confirmed some questionable dates. This means the barn was built prior to 1948. How fast did they build barns back in those days? I’d say at least a year. Angela’s educated guess of it being built in 1946/47 is probably right on. Gary
 
 
Round Barn – Square Dancers
Reply from Mary Eruich Knutson (62): Dunseith, ND
 
Hi Gary
Regarding that picture of the square dancers. Maybe Bill Pritchard can
find out for us who all the folks are. Doris and Corbin were part of
that group as was Mom and Jean and Dorothy. Jim and Ella Metcalfe were
members too if I remember right. I’ll never forget Jean laughing about
the night they had the contest passing a lifesaver on a toothpick .
They had two rows of people and each had a toothpick in his mouth and
they were to pass this lifesaver down the line toothpick to toothpickp
to see which line could get the lifesaver to the end of the line first.
No hands allowed. Jean was only about 9 or 10 years old. She said she
shoved her toothpick up some guys nose.
Mary K
Doris Smith Pritchard (46)
 
Hello Doris,
 
Was Bill able to print out those Square Dance pictures for you? Do any of those folks look familiar to you? Were you and Corbin part of the dance group pictured? Like Dick Johnson said, those folks look very familiar. For me too, they look very familiar, but other than for Whom I think are Willie and Maxine Hiatt, I can not place anyone.
 
Thanks, Gary
 
 
 
Posting from Janet (Ron 71) Houle: Kensington, MN

 

Gary – I don’t know if you have stumbled across this magazine or not but it is a fun one to page through – lots of ND events and history.

 
 
 
Wal-Mart Truck between Kramer and Russell
Posted by Neola Kofoid Garbe: Minot & Bottineau, ND
 
 
 
 
Wal-Mart Truck
Reply from Jerry Olson (Souris ’68): Bremerton, WA
 
I ‘ll bet the driver is looking for a new line of work right now. Having managed EPA Cleanup sites and oversaw a fleet of dump trucks and tankers, the rules & signs on the road were clear. He chose to ignore them. He is fortunate he wasn’t killed. I would have fired him while he was waiting to get rescued. I guess I am pretty cold and hard on anyone that chooses to break the rules like that. There sits a $100,000+ truck with probably that again in the trailer in merchandise.

On one spill cleanup (gasoline tanker roll-over up on Hwy 20 in NW Washington), we needed as many trucks as we could get and hired a number of independents. They were paid by the load to bring the contaminated soil down out of the Cascades to the processing facility (Huge Burner). This one driver was turning one or two loads more a day than any of the other drivers. He and his wife both drove and the truck was running nearly 20 hours a day. (Our operation to clean it up was 24/7). And then it happened. His brakes overheated, missed a curved on a steep road coming out of the Cascades and went right into Lake Diablo, contaminated soil and all. The water cleanup, truck removal, sampling of the water cost our company around $!00,000. Thank God, his wife was not on that run with him. He managed to get out of the cab and was picked up by reservoir workers on the lake.

I guess what I am saying, is I have no sympathy for the driver. I know Wal-Mart cut costs (corners) but this one cost them.

 

 

 

Joke of the Day

Posted by Doreen Larson Moran (BHS ’61): Usk, WA & Hazelton, ND

 

A distraught senior citizen
phoned her doctor’s office.
“Is it true,” she wanted to know,
“that the medication
you prescribed has to be taken
for the rest of my life?”
“‘Yes, I’m afraid so,”‘ the doctor told her.
There was a moment of silence
before the senior lady replied,
“I’m wondering, then,
just how serious is my condition
because this prescription is marked
‘NO REFILLS’
.