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n the 150-year history of Norfolk, one name arguably stands out the most: Johnny Carson.

Described as “Norfolk’s Shining Star” in a Daily News tribute published after his death in 2005, Carson redefined the late-night TV talk show in his 30-year stint as the host of “The Tonight Show” on NBC. Even though he retired in 1992, Carson’s legacy is still evident today as the late-night talk show has become a staple of television.

That legacy also is evident in Norfolk. Highway 81 in Norfolk is known as Johnny Carson Boulevard, while several billboards on the outskirts of Norfolk tout the Norfolk connection.

There also is a Johnny Carson exhibit at the Elkhorn Valley Museum in Norfolk, and an outdoor mural of Carson images in downtown Norfolk along with banners, as well as Norfolk’s annual Great American Comedy Festival, which is a tribute to Carson’s memory.

“He was the greatest talk show host of our time with the quickest mind. ... He was a true idol,” Billy Crystal, a well-known comedic legend in his own right, said after Carson’s passing. *** JOHNNY CARSON was born Oct. 23, 1925, in Corning, Iowa, and moved to Norfolk with his family when he was 8 years old. He graduated from Norfolk High in 1943. Shortly after graduation, he joined the U.S. Navy

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JOHNNY CARSON visits with young fans during his time in Norfolk while filming “Johnny Goes Home.” and served until 1945, when World War II ended. He then enrolled at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in speech and drama in 1949.

Carson broke into television work when he began working at WOW-TV (now WOWT) in Omaha in 1950, where he worked for a year and a half before making the move to California and landing at KNXT (now KCBS).

His stint as host of his own show, “Carson’s Cellar,” brought him to the

attention of comedian Red Skelton, who asked him to join the writing staff of “The Red Skelton Show.”

In 1954, Carson was asked to fill in for Skelton when the latter injured himself during rehearsals. CBS executives were so impressed with Carson’s performance that they offered him a five-year contract.

Over the next several years, Carson hosted several shows, including a five-year stint as the host of “Who Do ►Please see CARSON, page 43

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the downfall of President Richard Nixon in the 1970s.

The New York Times and the Encyclopedia of World Biography both described Carson’s opening monologue as a “bellwether” of the nation’s mood — and Carson’s jokes at Nixon’s expense were a definitive sign at the growing national disgust over Watergate.

In August 1974, Nixon became the only American president to resign from office. ► Last but not least, Carson might have helped save the political career of future President Bill Clinton. Then-Arkansas Gov. Clinton appeared on “The Tonight Show” in July 1988, shortly after giving an underwhelming speech at the Democratic National Convention.

Clinton exchanged jokes with Carson and played “Summertime” on the saxophone as he bounced back from a potential political disaster. Four years later, Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States. *** CARSON ALSO left a major impact in Nebraska and in Norfolk with his philanthropy.

Carson visited Norfolk in 1988 to dedicate a cancer radiation center — named in honor of his parents — at what is now Faith Regional Health Services. Carson donated $650,000 to help build the center and had donated more than $2 million to the center.

Other examples of Carson’s generosity include:

► A $5.3 million donation in 2004 to the renovation and expansion of the Temple Building at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. ► A $1 million donation in 1996 to the Lifelong Learning Center at Northeast Community College in Norfolk. ► A $600,000 donation in 1991 for what is now known as the Johnny Carson Theatre at Norfolk High School. ► A $500,000 donation in 2001 to the Norfolk Library Foundation.

Dan Mauk, a former president of the Norfolk Area Chamber of Commerce, told the Daily News in 2005 that Carson always would be remembered because he “loved Norfolk.”

“He certainly remembered us even though he didn’t need to,” Mauk said.

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While Carson was hosting “Who Do You Trust?” he was offered the chance to take over for Jack Paar as the host of “The Tonight Show.” After originally turning the offer down, Carson accepted and began hosting on Oct. 1, 1962, immediately after fulfilling his contract with “Who Do You Trust?” *** IN HIS three decades at the helm of “The Tonight Show,” Carson turned the late-night TV talk show — and especially “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” — into a cultural institution.

Carson’s reign arguably established a format of late-night talk shows that still exists today. “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson” kicked off with a monologue of several one-liners, followed by sketch comedy, then it segued into guest interviews and musical performances.

Even today, late-night talk shows — “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” “Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “Conan” or “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” — generally follow that same format that Carson perfected.

Carson’s “Tonight Show” also launched the career of numerous comedians, including Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, Jeff Foxworthy, Tim Allen, Drew Carey, Ray Romano and Roseanne Barr.

In addition, future latenight talk show hosts Joan Rivers, Jay Leno — Carson’s successor as “Tonight Show” host — and David Letterman all got career boosts from appearing on Carson’s show.

Carson kept in touch with Letterman even after the former’s retirement in 1992, often sending jokes to Letterman that ended up in “The Late Show with David Letterman” monologue. Shortly after Carson’s death, Letterman honored his mentor with a monologue consisting of jokes written exclusively

by Carson.

“All of us who came after him are pretenders,” Letterman told The Associated Press after Carson’s death. “We will not see the likes of him again.” *** Some more notable examples of Carson’s influence are: ► In 1966, Twister — which is now a well-known party game — was struggling to gain a foothold, and Milton Bradley was planning to quit selling it.

That was until Carson and actress Eva Gabor played Twister on “The Tonight Show,” and sales of the game skyrocketed. ► In late 1973, Carson cracked a joke about a potential shortage of toilet paper. Almost immediately, consumers began emptying shelves of the product and hoarding it, leading to a real toilet paper shortage for several weeks. ► Carson also indirectly factored into Watergate and

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► 1893 — The sugar beet factory produces more than 5 million pounds of sugar. ► 1896 — The General Federation of Women’s Clubs was organized. ► 1900 — On Oct. 1, Teddy Roosevelt stops while on a campaign trip. ► 1901 — Fire destroys

► 1908 — The Norfolk Country Club opens. the main building at the Norfolk Hospital for the Insane. ► 1903 — Construction begins on the federal building, now known as the McMill Building. ► 1907 — Norfolk High School is destroyed by fire

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ick Carson seems uneasy talking about himself.

Instead of reminiscing about the years he spent directing some of television’s most notable shows, he often turned the conversation back to his brother, Johnny Carson, the man who, for 30 years, cast a spell on late-night television viewers.

So well-known was the elder Carson that many people may have overlooked Dick Carson, who — while Johnny hosted “The Tonight Show — directed shows like “The Tonight Show,” “Merv Griffin Show” and “Wheel of Fortune,” earning him five Emmy awards.

“In college, I was a radio and speech major and spent most of my extracurricular time in theater productions as an actor.

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Johnny probably was the catalyst for my going into the field of entertainment,” Carson said during a telephone interview from his home in California.

Yes, Dick Carson considers California home.

Nebraskans may scoff at the idea that one of the Carson boys could call any place other than the Cornhusker State home.

After all, Dick was just 5 years old and Johnny was 8 in 1934 when they moved to Norfolk from Corning, Iowa, with their parents.

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four weddings,’ ” Carson quipped.

When Johnny moved his show to the West Coast, the brothers rekindled their frequent family gatherings.

“The many kindnesses Johnny showed us and other family members are so memorable. He took me on a wonderful trip to Europe the summer after I was widowed by my first wife’s death,” Carson said.

“When my present wife, Karlyn, and I got married in California, he and his wife, Alex, hosted a beautiful wedding celebra-

tion for us at their Malibu estate.”

In 1978, Carson joined the staff as director of “Wheel of Fortune.” He was able to juggle both shows because multiple episodes were taped in one day, he said.

Griffin’s show ended in 1986, after 15 years and 3,600 episodes. So Carson turned his full attention to “Wheel of Fortune.” And in 2000, Carson decided he had “had enough.”

Now, he stays busy playing golf and tennis, bicycling, reading and spending time his children

and granddaughters.

“People see pictures of me with Orson Welles or Ronald Reagan . . . they see the Emmys and they’re surprised.

“It’s been a wonderful career. I have a lot of good memories,” he said. ***

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Still, Carson’s voice betrays his longing for the “Leave It to Beaver” type of childhood he experienced in Norfolk.

“It was the perfect existence,” he said. “We walked to school and walked home. In the fall, John and I would rake leaves into piles and play football. It was great.”

The younger Carson got his first glimpse of Hollywood while stationed with the Navy in southern California, just down the road from Los Angeles where Johnny was working on his own local TV show.

“I would come up and visit Johnny while he was working on ‘Carson’s Cellar,’ ” Carson said.

When Carson’s stint in the service ended, he traveled to Los Angeles, where he landed a job directing the “Soupy Sales Show.”

When Johnny got his “big break” in the Big Apple in 1962, he asked his brother to join “The Tonight Show” team as a director.

There, the brothers continued the close relationship they had enjoyed as children.

After seven years in New York City, Carson and his late wife, Patricia, returned to California, where he “signed up” to do the “Merv Griffin Show.”

While working on the “Tonight Show” and “Merv Griffin Show,” Carson was associated with some of the most well-known personalities in show business, politics and sports — including President Ronald and Nancy Reagan, Charlton Heston, Bill Cosby and Mel Brooks.

“Merv and Nancy Reagan were close, longtime friends from their shared Warner Brothers Studio days,” Carson said.

He fondly recalls the time he and Johnny met “the great” Yankee players Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris and Elston Howard at Yankee Stadium.

He also remembers having cocktails with Prince Rainier and Princess Grace at their palace in Monaco.

Despite the miles that separated them physically after Dick Carson returned to California, the brothers remained close.

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What we said when they won Here are excerpts from three stories documenting Norfolk state championships.

1942 Midget Legion baseball “Proudly waving over the Norfolk midget ball club camp today is the state championship flag. The Norfolk boys with Marvin Papstein hurling a brilliant two hit game won the title Sunday afternoon by defeating St. Wenceslaus Omaha 4 to 0 in the State American Legion midget tournament finals at Schuyler before 1,000 fans.

“Neither club was able to score in the first three innings but Norfolk rallied in the fourth to score two runs to forge ahead. The champions added two more in the sixth. It was the hitting of (Mack) Robinson, (Leo) Harrison, (Marvin) Christiana and (Norman) Hundt that beat the Omahans pitcher Braniff. Robinson led the attack with a single and a triple while Hundt and Harrison came through with doubles when needed.

“Braniff fanned ten but the fighting Norfolkans delivered in the clutches with base hits that mattered most. Papstein settled six batters on bases.”

Through the years, the goal of the Norfolk Daily News continues to be to provide Norfolk and area residents with comprehensive, accurate and timely information they can rely on. Through world wars, natural disasters, political upheaval, triumphs and tragedies, we’re proud to be of continued service to Northeast and North Central Nebraska. We invite you to reminisce with us as you delve into the pages of this special section.

1979 Norfolk track and field “OMAHA — All eyes turned northerly here at Burke Stadium late Saturday afternoon when the voice on the PA system, almost in a tone of amazement, finally announced and recognized longshot Norfolk HS for the first time ever as Class A and Grand Champion of the Nebraska Boys’ State Track and Field Classic.

“Longshot, that is, to most everyone with the exception of the host of avid and diehard backers who pushed the incredible Panthers of Lyle Moeller all the way to the top.

“The odds of a school the size of NHS among metropolitan and other out-state giants gaining the championship throne in a sport depending so heavily on depth are all but astronomical. That’s why the spoils of the triumph for a young coach like Moeller, only two years on the job, become even

more fruitful.

“Panther athletes were beside themselves in post-meet celebration which really couldn’t start until fellow team members Al and Chris Wentling had assured the crown by gaining two of the top three spots in the day’s final event to be determined, the pole vault. Eleven Norfolk athletes carried the maroon and white colors into Burke Stadium Friday for the start of the 77th meet, nine of them contributed points to ‘the greatest day in my life and in that of Norfolk track,’ ” Moeller overflowed with elation.”

1987 Norfolk basketball

“LINCOLN — With 13 seconds left, Lincoln Northeast’s Brad Richardson was at the free throw line and Chris Price was at midcourt shaking his fist at a throng of 6,000-plus Norfolk followers “What was going through Price’s mind?

“I’ll tell you what. It was the possibility of getting a chance to fulfill a dream every school kid in America fantasizes — winning a state championship with YOUR lastsecond shot.

“And would you believe it, Price’s dream came true Saturday night. He drilled a downtown, Capital City jumper, beyond the college 3-point line, with six seconds left to give Norfolk High School a 62-61 victory over Lincoln Northeast in the Class A state championship game at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. “ ‘This is a dream come true,’ Price said.

‘When you’re a kid you always practice out in the driveway — three, two, one. I made it! We won! And you keep doing it again.

Three, two, one. It’s in! “ ‘When there were 13 seconds left in the game, I told Faust (Rob) to get me the ball. I had the rhythm. It took me awhile to get it, but once I got it, I knew it was going in.’

“Price had made up his mind, but his game winner might not have come about had teammate Chad Feuerbacher not pulled down the rebound off of Richardson’s miss.”

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City has claimed 35 state championships

By TOM BEHMER

local high schools over the city’s 150 years.

The 1994 Class A state football championship won by the Norfolk High football team may rate as the most well-known high school state title in the city’s 150 years.

But that championship, along with the 1987 Class A state basketball title secured when Chris Price knocked down a deep jumper in the closing seconds, is only a small piece of the city’s illustrious history in high school athletics. Overall, 35 local teams — including the ones noted in 1972 and 1973 Daily News clippings on this page — have returned championship trophies to their respective schools.

Here is a breakdown of the state championships that have been won by the three

Track and field ³ Norfolk High boys (1979, A); Norfolk Catholic boys (2007, Class B).

Boys golf ³ Norfolk Catholic (1973, C; 1974, C; 1976, C).

Wrestling ³ Norfolk Catholic (2005, C; 2006, C).

Boys basketball ³ Norfolk High (1987, A); Norfolk Catholic (2011, C1).

Girls basketball ³ Norfolk Catholic (2008, C).

Volleyball ³ Lutheran High Northeast (2010, C2; 2011, C2).

Boys tennis ³ Norfolk High (1973, B).

Girls golf ³ Norfolk High (1996, A; 1998, A; 2012, A); Norfolk Catholic (2005, C).

Football ³ Norfolk Catholic (1983, C1; 1991, C1; 1998, C1; 1999, C1; 2004, C1; 2005, C1; 2010, C1; 2011, C1; 2012, C1); Norfolk High (1994, A).

Cross country ³ Norfolk High girls (2008, A; 2009, A); Norfolk Catholic boys (2006, C; 2007, C; 2008, C; 2009, C).

Legion baseball ³ Norfolk midgets (1942, A; 1972, A).

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Hall brothers savvy salesmen before founding card company

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Johnny Carson isn’t the only famous person who once called Norfolk home.

The Hall brothers who founded Hallmark Cards were also Norfolkans.

Mr. and Mrs. George Hall were living in David City when their four children were born. Rollie arrived in 1882, William in 1884, Joyce in 1891 and Marie in 1896.

(Although a boy, Joyce was named after a Methodist minister.)

Their father operated a hardware store in David City for a while and then became an itinerant minister before disappearing and leaving their mother to care for the children.

To help with the finances, the boys often skipped school to work at a variety of jobs.

For instance, Will and Rollie worked for a millinery and notions store, eventually becoming managers.

In 1889, Rollie began working at a bookstore in Columbus. Three years later, he began selling paper for the Marshall Paper Company, and William took over as manager of the bookstore.

AT THE AGE of 8, Joyce went to work as a kitchen maid and nurse to a woman who was expecting a baby. He later sold lemonade to people who were attending the circus and sandwiches to passengers changing trains. He also sold cosmetics for the California Perfume Company, which later became Avon.

In the spring of 1901, William bought Uter’s Book Shop in Norfolk, which he renamed the Norfolk Book and Stationery Store. Soon after, the boys’ mother, Joyce and Marie moved to Norfolk to a house at 214 N. 11th Street.

Rollie spent most of his time on the road selling candy for a factory in Omaha while Joyce went to school in Norfolk and worked at the bookstore where he sold candy, magazines, newspapers, tobacco, pipes, glassware and other products. On Saturday nights, Joyce picked up 400 Sunday newspapers at the train station at Norfolk Junction

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To help with finances, the boys often skipped school to work at a variety of jobs.

and took them to the store on his bicycle.

At some point, William acquired or opened Hall Smoke House and Halls Gift and Card Shop, which meant he was operating two businesses. He was also active in Norfolk’s civic life as a member of the Elks Club, Rotary Club and the Norfolk Baseball Association.

In 1905, a “dapper little salesman in a derby hat” walked into the stationery store hoping to talk to William. Finding William gone, the salesman explained to Joyce that he had come from Chicago to sell picture post cards to a wholesale dealer in Fremont, who wasn’t interested. The salesman offered to sell the cards to the Halls for $1,000.

THE NEXT MORNING, William agreed and the brothers bought the cards, many of which had messages on them. Later, the brothers started printing their own cards.

When he was 14, Joyce went on the road with Rollie, selling post cards, candy and other products.

On a trip to Omaha, a fellow salesman persuaded Joyce to sell “sweeping compound,” which he could buy for $2 and sell for $4. Enamored, Joyce returned to Norfolk, and persuaded the bank to guarantee his account for a load of sweeping compound.

From there, he started the Norfolk Brokerage Company. Joyce quit school to peddle the compound and post cards, an endeavor that netted him $5,000 in one year.

In 1909, at the age of 17, Joyce moved to Kansas City, taking two boxes of post cards with him. There, he attended business school and operated a post card mail order business.

In 1911, Rollie, Marie and their mother ►Please see HALL, page 49

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A skating rink and stage were housed in the Cotton building at 335 Norfolk Ave., which was built in 1881 by Col. S.S. Cotton.

One of Cotton· s daughters, Mary, married a Mathewson, son of Col. Charles Mathewson, who built the town· s mill.

In 1887, according to an ordinance, Norfolk· s sidewalks had to be at least 6 feet wide.

The steps were high enough so people could step COURTESY PHOTO out of a buggy easily. The high steps were necessary THE HALL FAMILY during a Thanksgiving gathering in Norfolk. Joyce (from left), since Norfolk· s streets floodRollie and William are in the back. ed so often.

sas City to join his brothers in the business there. He sold the smoke house to Al Mason and the gift shop to Jean Whitney. He sold the post card company at 320 Norfolk Ave. to Huse Publishing.

Karl Stefan later owned the smoke house. Hall Brothers Inc., became Hallmark Cards in 1954, and is still a thriving business.

Joyce last visited Norfolk in 1962. Rollie died in 1968; William died in 1971; Joyce died in 1982; and Marie died in 1981.

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joined Joyce in Kansas City.

And, because the interest in post cards was waning, the Halls turned their attention to greeting cards.

In 1916, they bought an engraving company and began Hall Brothers Engraving Company. There, they produced greeting cards, hiring artists to create original designs.

World War I heightened the interest in cards, and the company flourished.

However, William Hall

stayed in Norfolk. He married Olga Hagel of Columbus in 1906, and in 1915, they bought a house at 1103 Koenigstein Ave. He continued to be active in civic life, including the Elks Lodge, the Rotary Club and the Norfolk Baseball Association.

In 1916, William built a new building at 411 Norfolk Avenue, where he moved the Norfolk Post Card Company, as well as his gift, photography and tobacco business. In 1921, he was persuaded to move to Kan-

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DONNA RECTOR, who was a teacher and school administrator, has lived most of her adult life in Norfolk. Her husband, Harley, was a mayor of Norfolk. She still works on quilts and currently is working on 17 projects, mostly those to benefit charity and family. Behind her is a wall of plaques that were given to the Rectors.

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onna Rector arrived in Norfolk in 1960. She can remember the city when it was about half of its current

size.

During a recent interview in connection with Norfolk’s upcoming 150th anniversary celebration, she noted that one thing she has learned “change always happens,” including in Norfolk. Sometimes it is “just so slow you don’t notice it until you stop to look back,” she said.

Except for four years in the 1960s when she taught at the now-closed Dana College in Blair, Rector has lived in Norfolk ever since.

In 1968, she married another educator and administrator, Harley Rector. He later became mayor of Norfolk. Both Rectors were highly visible in the community. Both won the Edward R. Vrzal Award, named after the former Norfolk mayor, for their community service efforts. Many people consider it to be the highest award given in recognition for service to Norfolk. Harley Rector died in 2013 at age 84.

She recently finished walking 150 miles as part of the campaign to celebrate Norfolk’s 150th birthday. She managed to do it despite having three artificial joints and a fused back.

Here are some of the highlights from about an hourlong conversation with Donna in her home.

Q: When did you and Harley arrive in Norfolk?

A: We both came in 1960. It was my first teaching job and it was his third placement because he had taught in Fullerton and Tecumseh before that. He came as the football coach. He used to like to say that they hadn’t won a game, then the board made him the assistant principal at the high school. I don’t think they won a game the next year either when he wasn’t coaching.

But he had been pretty successful coaching at Fullerton before that.

Q: As I recall, Harley played at Nebraska and Peru State and was offered a professional football contract from the Detroit Lions?

A: Yes, it was short term at Nebraska but it was really more at Peru State where he had a tremendous team and they had a tremendous season at least one of the years he was there.

Q: What were the details on the Lions· contract? I kind of remember Harley telling me it was for $5,000, which although it was a lot of money at the time, he didn· t think it was worth it.

A: I don’t remember what the amount was but we have it framed downstairs. By then, he had already ruined his knee and had a teaching contract, so he had to decide. I’m glad he decided to take the teaching contract.

Q: It seems like most people knew Harley before he became mayor from when

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Continued from Page 50³ he was principal at Norfolk Junior High School. How long was it before he became the principal at the junior high?

A: I’d have to look it up to know exactly, but he would have been at the senior high until Fred Egley decided he wanted to step down, and he would become the assistant at the junior high.

He was a little unsure how it would go because Fred is just such a terrific guy, but it worked out. I don’t know for sure, how long it was before he became principal, maybe about 10 years, but that is where he spent the majority of his teaching career.

Q: So where did you begin your teaching career in Norfolk?

A: At the junior high, the senior high and the junior college. I had 450 students, and I saw them all twice a week because I had different students on different days. That was the first time I taught at the college. I taught at the college three times, and it had a different name each time I taught there.

College, so I taught there three times with Norfolk Junior College, Northeast College and then Northeast Community College.

Q: What subject or subjects did you teach?

A: I taught physical education those first four years, then I went to Dana College (in Blair) for four years and taught physical education and, if you can believe it, that’s when Harley and I started dating — when I was gone from Norfolk. Then we got married in 1968. So then when I came back I taught at the college here again and was dean of women.

Then we decided to adopt the boys (Lance and Tim) and so I was at home with them for a few years.

Then I taught English at Norfolk Catholic for about four years, then while I was teaching, I started taking classes in special education. I was really interested in that. Then I started teaching special education in Tilden, and I was there for 17 years. And I loved it. I really loved teaching special education there, and I loved the variety. I really loved the students because they were all so willing to learn. It was a good thing.

first impressions of Norfolk?

A: Hmm. That’s hard.

(Pause.) They were great people. Right from the start, I had great people to work with. There were good students. I just love to run into my former students these days. It is fun to go to the YMCA and see half a dozen or more of them each day.

And there are probably more. That’s just when I am there. Or to see them at their class reunions. Or just to meet them here and there. I just love that.

Q: What were some of your impressions of Norfolk the second time? I can remember coming to Norfolk as a boy from a farm in Cuming County on occasion with my Mom and siblings. It seemed like everything was kind of downtown, but the mall was a new thing. I remember there was a grocery store there and there was a

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All those stores downtown, that’s what I can remember.

There was Hutchinson’s on a corner. Fay Gordon (who taught at Norfolk Public Schools for 48 years and was well known for her friendship with Johnny Carson) sold me a hat. I bought a hat with my first paycheck from teaching, and I’m pretty sure Fay Gordon was the clerk who waited on me.

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Q: What were some of the organizations you belong to or have belonged?

A: Wow, oh, I am the volunteer executive director with Habitat for Humanity and have been since it started here. There have been various church things (First United Methodist Church), Bread for the World and just a lot of things. Harley was really involved in community projects. I don· t think I can name them all without looking them up. ... I guess right now I· m the secretary for the retired teachers.

Q: I remember Harley was in the Lions Club. It seemed like one of the things that I noticed when I came here in 1990 was how many service clubs there were. To me, it seems like it isn· t as much

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Q: So what do you remember about the Norfolk centennial?

A: You know, I don· t remember it. What year would have that been, 1966? I would have been in Blair.

That· s probably why.

Q: What do you think are some of the most memorable events that have occurred in Norfolk?

A: Probably the times Johnny Carson came back, like for his homecoming (in 1982). But for me personally, I would have to say the dedications of all the Habitat for Humanity houses.

We· ve had 27 of those now.

Q: Did you gain any particular insights about city government while Harley was the mayor?

A: Oh, I don· t know (laughing). I don· t want to remember the phone calls. It was an interesting job, and I was glad he did it. I learned more about city government Q: It is a time-consuming job. I assume you have to have a strong desire to serve and love the community?

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Soap star, Tony the Tiger both called Norfolk home

By SHERYL SCHMECKPEPER living@norfolkdailynews.com

everal Norfolkans have achieved a certain amount of fame in their lives.

Not all of them have household names, but one had a recognizable voice.

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Thurl Ravenscroft

Thurl Ravenscroft was born on Feb. 6, 1914, in Norfolk to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ravenscroft. His father managed the Woolworth’s store for 33 years before retiring in 1953. Ravenscroft graduated from Norfolk High School in 1931, and was in the first class at Norfolk Junior College.

After graduating from college, he moved to California to pursue a career in the entertainment industry.

Before his career could get started, he served as a navigator in the U.S. Army Air Transport Command during World War II. He met his wife, June, during the war, and the couple returned to California after the war.

After the war, he performed with a number of singing groups and with many stars, including Jim Nabors and Elvis Presley.

He was best known for his voice-over work, especially the voice of Tony the Tiger in advertisements for Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes.

He also did the singing and animal voices for many movies, including “The Lady and the Tramp” and “Mary Poppins.”

Ravenscroft returned to Norfolk in 1966 to participate in Norfolk’s Centennial celebration.

He died in 2005.

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In 2002, he was diagnosed with aplastic anemia, and in 2005, he was diagnosed with lung cancer.

He died a few months later.

Doris Pahn Doris Alice Pahn — also known as Doris Pawn — was born in Norfolk in 1894.

Growing up, she spent her vacations on the ranch of an uncle. There, she learned to ride horses.

She entered a business

college to prepare for life as a typist. She later moved to California with her mother and brother and stayed in San Diego when her family returned east.

Pawn eventually met director Wilfred Lucas and was offered work in the film “Trey of Hearts (1914),” while the company was on location in San Diego.

The film featured Cleo Madison and George Larkin. So impressed were the filmmakers that she was offered additional work if she came along to Los Angeles, Calif. Pawn worked for a period of three months as an extra.

In 1916, she appeared in her first Fox Film feature, “Blue Blood and Red,” directed by Raoul Walsh. Studios were impressed with her personal charm and ability to act naturally.

In addition to Fox, Pawn made movies with Universal, Goldwyn and Paramount Pictures.

She returned to Fox in 1921 for the making of Shame. Her final films — “Fools and Riches” and “The Hero” were released in 1923. She died in 1988.

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Born on Nov. 14, 1935, Stewart was raised in Norfolk and moved to New York to study opera.

There he worked off and on Broadway before entering the Air Force. He also served in the Navy and Navy Reserves.

He is best known for his portrayal of Michael Bauer in “The Guiding Light.”

In the 1970s, he married Susan Tremble, and the couple had two daughters.

They later divorced, and he never remarried.

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Roads were one of the topics the late Hawthorne Daniel wrote about in an article published in the 1966 centennial issue of the Daily News.

Rivers were another topic he touched on. Both played vital roles in Norfolk’s development.

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“Main Street, which was then the name of Norfolk Avenue, was forever being wet down throughout the summer by the town’s big, horse-drawn sprinkling wagon, but few of the other streets were.

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Daniel was the son of Dr. David and Nancy Daniel.

David Daniel graduated from Washington University in Baltimore in 1876 and moved to the Elkhorn Valley because many of his fellow Virginians had settled here.

“He hung out his shingle because, even then, the town showed more promise than any other community in that portion of the state,” Hawthorne Daniel said in his article.

Daniel’s mother, Nancy, came to Norfolk in 1871 from Ohio with her parents, Daniel and Nancy Kyner.

The younger Nancy was just 12 years old at the time.

Nancy’s brother, James, had already staked a claim on land a “mile or two” north of the mill. By then, James had lost part of his leg in the Battle of Shiloh, had attended Ohio University and “read law” in the office of his uncle, a Civil War colonel.

Why he and the family came to Norfolk is a mystery.

In another interesting twist, Hawthorne Daniel was born in the house built

by Col. Charles Mathewson, who built the town’s first mill.

The house was located on the southwest corner of First and Main streets (Now Norfolk Avenue), just across from the mill.

Daniel talked about the “great cottonwood beam” that ran from front to back beneath the parlor and sitting room — “a hand-hewn beam that measured 10 inches or so on each side.”

In his article, Daniel also painted a “clear picture of that portion of Norfolk as it was.”

“I can plainly see the mill ... and clearly remember the sound of the water wheel which, darkly hidden and rarely seen beneath the mill, nevertheless performed its endless task within 10 or a dozen yards of where we fished for sunfish, where the water from the mill race re-entered the curving little river.”

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Plains was in 1932. There were 14 that year.

The number tripled in 1933. By 1934, an estimated 100 million acres of farmland had lost all or most of its topsoil.

The worst day was April 14, 1935, forever known as Black Sunday when winds clocked in at 60 mph in some areas.

The next day, a reporter for The Associated Press coined the term “the Dust Bowl.”

Maps show that Northeast Nebraska was on the northern edge of the affected area.

Still, Elaine Schmeckpeper of Norfolk, who grew up on a farm west of Madison, recalls wiping up piles of dirt off of windowsills every morning and night during those years.

The fine dust crept in even though the windows were closed.

When the wind died down, people who were desperate for relief from the heat tried sleeping outside. In Lincoln, people rolled blankets out on the lawn of the State Capitol building.

Mike Moats remembers hearing about people who soaked their bed sheets in cool water and slept on wet sheets.

The regular at the Norfolk Senior Citizens Center shared some of his Dirty ’30s memories recently.

The farm near Osmond where he was raised didn’t have electricity then, so there were no fans and certainly no air conditioning to help keep him and his family cool. ►Please see CROPS, page 59

Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in 2012. ***

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Green apples blistered in the sun; tomatoes burned on the vine. Pastures dried up to nothing.

Lawns turned various shades of brown and tan. Grass crinkled and crackled underfoot.

While those conditions do exist today, these words actually were written in 1936 to describe the drought and heat wave that plagued the Midwest that year.

On July 16, 1936, the temperature hit 112 degrees in Norfolk. The mark was eclipsed the next day when the mercury climbed to 115 degrees.

“Relief still unsighted,” the Daily News’ headline read.

By then, Nebraskans had become somewhat accustomed to extreme conditions.

After all, the Midwest was in the middle of what would come to be known as the Dirty ’30s.

High summer temperatures and low rainfall had caused vegetation to die, and the ground to blister and crack.

In some cases, improper farming practices left the ground bare. Wind “flung” the topsoil into piles that buried animals, automobiles, buildings and even people.

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The conditions forced some people to pack their meager belongings and move west, just like their pioneering counterparts 60 years earlier who left Europe to settle the Plains in the first place. Others stayed in the area and did whatever work was available.

The federal government instituted a number of programs to help the unemployed. One of those was the Works Progress Administration, which put people to work building roads, public buildings and more.

Eventually, conditions improved. The wind stopped; rain returned. Crops grew.

The war started and suddenly there were more jobs than people.

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Or the river, which is where Ken Shriver of Norfolk spent some summer days when he was a kid. Or the pool at King’s Park.

While kids could spend some of their time cooling off in the tank or the river, most adults had to work their way through the long, hot days.

Harold Wittler, 86, remembers that his father kept salt pellets in his pocket and would “pop a couple” when sweating too much in the heat. Evidently that was the 1930s version of Gatorade.

People were discouraged from burning trash or tossing cigarette butts for fear of causing fires.

“Because grass and other objects outdoors, where they have been parched by continued high temperatures, are powder dry and easily ignited, all smokers are asked to see that their cigarettes are extinguished when discarded,” warned city officials in a Daily News article.

Still, most people managed.

On special occasions, families that had milk or cream whipped up a batch of ice cream.

The task was not as easy as it sounds since ice had to be either hauled from town or hauled out of the ice shed or barn where it was stored after being cut out of the lake the winter before.

Ice cream freezers were cranked by hand.

On Saturday nights, “we took a crate of eggs and a can of cream ... and exchanged them for groceries,” said Wittler. “We even got to see a movie,” added the Norfolkan.

Families that had livestock and a garden got along better than some others, Moats said.

Difficulties arose when crops failed year after year.

Those farmers who were forced to sell out because of the drought often didn’t earn enough to pay their debts.

“Land that sold for $300 to $350 an acre in the late 1920s brought $25 an acre at foreclosures,” Wittler said.

Still, the men agreed that many financial institutions foreclosed as a last resort.

“The banks didn’t want

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NORFOLK DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2016

Brunswick native heading state’s 150th commemoration

By MIKE BUHLER

mbuhler@norfolkdailynews.com

While the city of Norfolk is preparing to celebrate its 150th birthday this year, the state of Nebraska will be celebrating its sesquicentennial next year.

As Nebraska prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday, it is doing so with area native Regan Anson leading the charge. Anson, the executive director of Nebraska 150, is from Brunswick.

Anson found out about the position from friends of hers and is excited to play a role in Nebraska’s history.

“A couple of friends told me about the position and encouraged me to apply,” Anson said.

“I was interested in the job not only because it represented a new challenge but also because it was truly a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity. This has given me the chance to play a role, however small, in Nebraska’s history.”

Anson’s duties as executive director for Nebraska 150 include the strategic and operational responsibility for the Nebraska 150 Celebration, the organization’s personnel, and its programs and projects. Anson

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Anson also is the main representative of Nebraska 150 in its relations with the community, government agencies, the media and other organizations.

“I’m very fortunate to have a team of people working with me who are incredibly talented and committed to the state,” Anson said.

“Nebraska first lady Susanne Shore, my boss, has been an incredible mentor.”

Shore is the chief fund-

raiser for the Nebraska 150 Celebration, while another area native, Kevin Moser of Elgin, is the director of digital communications.

Cynthe Johnson of Kearney is the director of event planning for Nebraska 150, and the group also has two interns and a bookkeeper.

Anson and Nebraska 150 have many events planned for the sesquicentennial.

Things get going in January 2017 with the launch of the Impact Nebraska and eNergize Nebraska programs, and also the launch of the Preserving Our History effort to collect new interviews.

The Statehood Day Celebration is slated for March 1, 2017, which also is when the Painting the Legacy Exhibit will be unveiled. The Mobile Children’s Museum begins its tour of Nebraska in April 2017 and will run through September.

The UP NE150 Whistle Stop Tour across Nebraska will begin traveling across the state in May 2017. In June, the One State, One Book program will launch and the Nebraska Atlas also will be shipped to schools.

The Sesquicentennial Spectacular on Centennial Mall in Lincoln is slated for August 2017, while the solar eclipse on Aug. 21, 2017, also will be part of the sesquicentennial celebration.

The Nebraska Experience for Fourth-Graders program also begins in August and will run through June 2018.

There will be a special Veterans Day celebration on Nov. 11, 2017.

In the meantime, Norfolk will celebrate its own sesquicentennial in the coming weeks, giving a foretaste of what will be celebrated statewide next year.

“What an exciting time for the City of Norfolk,” Anson said. “The sesquicentennial of the state and the city really offers an opportunity for people to reflect on how far we have come, but it is also a time to envision what the next 150 years will bring.

“This is a time when we can focus on the kind of legacy we want to leave for future generations of Nebraskans.”

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LINCOLN — Nebraska’s Capitol will have a new look by the time the state celebrates its 150th birthday next year, and party planners hope to bring the festivities to as many residents as possible.

With less than a year until the March 1 anniversary of Nebraska’s statehood in 1867, crews are showing progress on construction projects to spruce up the Capitol and surrounding area. For those who live far from Lincoln, organizers of the sesquicentennial are planning a series of events and programs that will take place throughout the state.

THE CAPITOL IS expected to have four new fountains in place before the celebration begins. The fountains are the last unfinished design feature of the Capitol, which was built in stages between 1922 and 1932. They were intended to sit in each of the building’s four open-air courtyards, but plans to construct them and install 20 murals were halted because of the Great Depression. The last of the murals were added in 1996.

“To leave that kind of architectural effort undone just didn’t seem appropriate,” said former state Sen. Bob Wickersham, who advocated for the fountains project as

a member of the Nebraska Association of Former State Legislators. “It’s just inconceivable that we wouldn’t finish the building.”

Lawmakers approved $2.5 million for the fountains in 2014, overriding then-Gov. Dave Heineman’s veto. Heineman argued the fountains were an unnecessary expense.

Nebraska Capitol Administrator Bob Ripley said crews expect to have all of the fountains finished by the year’s end despite numerous logistical challenges. Because the courtyards are surrounded by offices, crews have had to haul wheelbarrows filled with concrete and dirt through the Capitol’s halls to access the four work sites.

“It’s a bit like building a ship in a bottle,” Ripley said.

Ripley said the project helped unearth a bit of Nebraska history. While digging in the southwest courtyard last week, crews discovered an old brick tunnel that housed steam pipes, which were used to heat Nebraska’s second state Capitol. The second Capitol was finished in 1888, but was poorly constructed and only lasted a few decades before the current Capitol replaced it.

Outside, crews have nearly finished work on a revitalized Centennial Mall that stretches from the Capitol’s north entrance ►Please see STATE, page 63

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Anson said the group hopes to hold events within a two-hour drive of every Nebraska resident. Many of the ideas were borrowed from other states and gleaned from brainstorming sessions with a committee that includes first lady Susanne Shore, who is raising money for the celebration.

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Continued from Page 62³ into downtown Lincoln.

Three new fountains have been installed on the Mall, which was built in 1967 to commemorate 100 years of Nebraska statehood.

The Mall had fallen into disrepair, but was overhauled with $9.6 million raised by the Lincoln Parks Foundation.

The Centennial Mall project marks the culmination of years of work and planning, said Jeff Searcy, chairman of the Nebraska Capitol Environs Commission.

“It’s a long-term project and something that will be exciting for the entire state,” Searcy said. “The opportunity to tie that into the Nebraska Sesquicentennial next year is definitely an exclamation point for us.”

The sesquicentennial will feature at least 13 programs and events aimed at as many residents as possible, said Regan Anson, executive director of the nonprofit Nebraska 150 Celebration.

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► In 1917, the Norfolk Woman’s Club passed a resolution declaring that Norfolk needed a woman police officer. ► In 1918, Norfolkans set bonfires and had parades to celebrate the end of World War I. ► In 1919, the Norfolk Livestock Market opened.

It operated for almost 100 years.

Editor’s note: The Daily News has been collecting memories of life in Norfolk.

On the next few pages, you’ll find stories about the great flood of 1944, Kings Park and many more. ***

Hunting Atwood My dad was the sort of man who made good friends. I was named after two of his longtime childhood buddies. This memory was related to me by Lonn

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It· s not known if he is one of the boys in this photo.

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would have lots of ducks to carry back. They headed for a ranch pond they had previously fished at in the summer and had seen lots of ducks.

They made sure they carried lots of shotgun shells. When they got to the pond, they quietly got all set up and peeked through the cattails. Sure enough, there wasn’t a duck in sight.

Talk about disappointed.

They walked silently back to pick up what they had stashed. Lonn can hear to this day Ted, saying, “I’m sure glad we brought all those shells.” They had to walk 4 miles to the Newport Depot to catch the returning train.

He said they were sure cold and tired when they got there. They were able to start a fire in the old potbellied stove and then

collapse and sleep on the wooden benches.

The depot agent woke them up when a returning train came, and they got on and slept all the way until the Conductor woke them and said they were back in Norfolk.

It was two in the morning. Ted only lived a block from the station but Lonn still had to walk 7 blocks to his home.

This was only one of the many memories Lonn has of his and Ted’s escapades.

Can you imagine kids in this day and of that age having such a great adventure?

— As told by Lonn Bottorff to Lonn Atwood

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KING· S BALLROOM was a popular spot for people who liked to dance and those who just liked to listen to music. Here, dancers twirl around the ballroom floor. memories. My husband and I kept track of what bands were coming to play.

Apparently others did the same as there were huge crowds that came to listen and dance the night away.

When Lawrence Welk came, it was standing room only.

I can still picture in my mind the large, beautiful revolving mirrored ball that hung over the dance floor. It created lights that reflected over the whole place. It was a sight to behold.

On the upper level there were booths surrounding the dance floor where people could sit and listen

and view the dances. The band was on a stage on the west wall.

Many bands were local — such as Don Sohl — and others came from great distances.

On one wall were a large number of autographed pictures of famous bands that had played there.

It was a sad day when King’s Ballroom burned to the ground. Everything was destroyed — the revolving mirrored ball, the dance floor and the autographed pictures. It all went up in smoke. All we have are memories.

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After celebrating Thanksgiving with our families, my two roommates and I arrived back at our apartment on South Second Street and prepared for bed. Someone remembered that there was a dance at King’s. It was decided that we would stay in our pajamas, hop in the car and head out to King’s just to see how big a crowd was dancing on Thanksgiving night.

As we drove into King’s parking lot, one roommate recognized her Dad’s old car that he had recently traded, only now it was being driven by a handsome young man. We stopped to chat with the guys in the car, which led to an invitation to drive around with them.

We hurried back home to change clothes, then met the fellas for a quick drive around town, which always funneled through the Double K. When the ride was over, the driver asked to see me again.

The rest is history. We would have celebrated our 52nd anniversary on April 17, 2016, had cancer not been a part of our lives.

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As the doors opened, welcoming us in, my head started to spin. Everywhere I looked were posters of different bands and orchestras. They were people and bands I had only heard my parents talk about dancing to.

The dance floor looked as big as a football field. A glittering disco ball hung from the beautifully sculptured ceiling.

A curved walnut bar stretched forever. Lighting around it was soft.

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I hoped the evening would never end.

King’s Ballroom — the most beautiful building I have ever had the privilege to visit will be forever etched in my memories.

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First dance I remember dancing at King’s Ballroom. My first memories are of free wedding dances while in high school.

Often people from small towns would provide the free dance.

Then, I took dance lessons on Sunday afternoons from Jean King, staying for the Sunday night dances where famous band leaders would occasionally provide the music.

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— Peg Timmer-Kathol Norfolk

Learning to swim My memory of Norfolk includes my three children taking free Red Cross swimming lessons at King’s Pool.

The children are close in age, so I took them together to their free lessons. The teacher was swamped with children who wanted to learn to swim. I stood outside the fence and watched all three of them until they could swim.

I often wonder if there are free lessons anywhere today.

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I was born in Norfolk in the ’50s and my dad grew up in Norfolk. My cousins, Debra, Brooks and Lisa, and I would spend time with my grandparents, Homer and Lena Stansberry. Some special memories we have are: going swimming in a “wonderful” pool at the park across from the old high school.

We thought it was just the greatest, but it really was a little round shallow cement bowl.

My Grandpa Homer was a Chicago North Western train engineer. When he would come into town on the way to the depot (the track was only a half a block from where they lived), he would toot his special whistle, and Grandma or us grandkids, if we were lucky, would flip the light and then be off in their only car to pick him up.

One summer there were fires set during the week we were there, so every night about the same time we would wait for the fire whistles and wonder where it would be that night. The person who started the fires was eventually caught.

There was a beauty school in Norfolk, and I would get all my haircuts there because they were really cheap and good.

Norfolk was a great place and now lucky my son lives and works there.

— Konda Stansberry Cooper, York

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My dad was a train buff, and in the dark a few mornings later, he took my brothers, sister and me to watch the loading of these same animals into train cars as they left Norfolk. Another circus memory of mine is playing a calliope in the circus parade. I also remember roller skating at an open air rink on the northeast corner of Sixth Street and Madison Avenue, across from Sacred Heart School.

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In 1959 or 1960, my sister-inlaw Mary Mardell Scheer Pulliam worked at Henningsen Food Inc. in Norfolk sorting eggs.

When she had her supper hour, she and her friend would walk over to King’s Ballroom where they would dance their dinner hour away and then hurry back to work. Mary Mardell would also Jitterbug with her younger sister Jeanette.

In the summer, they would dance outside in the front yard under the two big trees by their home at 200 N. 2nd St. They actually wore the grass away in a big circle there. Mary loved to dance and even taught classmates to dance in the kitchen at that home.

Once Mary fell when she was dancing and broke her collarbone.

Later, when Mary Mardell married her husband Dick, they continued to dance, even taking a dance class and belonging to a dance group. I think she got her love of dancing from her Mom and Dad, Lyle and Theresa Scheer.

They often danced the night away at King’s Ballroom or Riverside.

Sadly, Mary passed away almost two years ago, but I can picture her dancing to the music in heaven.

— Alice Sheer, Norfolk

Our favorite memories of Norfolk of course, center around King’s Ballroom and all the dances we attended there before and after we were married (in the 1950s up until it burned down).

Shirley remembers in the 1950s before she was married when she worked downtown at the Lazy L Cafeteria.

She and her girlfriends in Norfolk enjoyed an ice cream shop on Norfolk Avenue (near present day Chicago Lumber) called the IceBerg or Ice Palace where they served the best ice-cream in town.

She and her friends did not own a car so they walked where ever they went and always made time to stop for ice cream.

They also enjoyed walking to Prenger’s every Friday night for shrimp supper for a dollar, which would have been around 1955. They always looked forward to that special treat.

Bob remembers when their entire country school (all 7 kids) made a school field trip into town and toured WJAG radio station, which at that time was in the Hotel Madison, around 1945.

That was a very big deal to the kids at that time. Bob also remembers

near the current day Club Hollywood there was a Hinky Dinky grocery store with an upstairs bowling alley where he remembers bowling on a league. Always a fun time.

That was before he entered the Army in the early 1950s.

— Bob and Shirley Groninger Norfolk

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Of course, my favorite memories of Norfolk include dances at King’s Ballroom and Riverside.

Such fun times at the old ABC bowling alley, too. Some of my fondest memories also include one of my first “real” jobs in Norfolk aside from Gibson’s, and that was doing office work at Kinning and Reil.

Such a wonderful group of people to work with, some of whom I’m so happy to still remain friends with today.

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I’ve lived in Norfolk my entire life. I grew up at 602 S. Eighth St. with seven brothers and sisters. When we were old enough to start doing household chores, we got a nickel a week for our allowance. We all went to one of our neighborhood grocery stores to spend it, usually (always) on candy.

You could buy penny candy in the ’50s for 1 cent and there were a few that cost two for one cent. They had BB bats and individual Bit-O-Honey, Necco wafers, Safe-Tpops and licorice whips, etc.

We lived around the corner from two of these friendly neighborhood stores located right across the street from each other! They were in the 700 block on Pasewalk Avenue. One was owned by a Mr. Braasch and the other by the Ptak family.

We would take a long time deciding just which kind of candy to buy each week and, I’m sure we tried the owners patience on more than 1 occasion. Norfolk had quite a few of these small grocery stores at the time, but I don’t think there are any left.

To show you how much times have changed, we would take a note from our mom to the store and buy her cigarettes. Try doing THAT today!

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Another good memory is going to the roller rink and skating on Sunday nights. We would skate for hours and even do the limbo on skates.

After we were finished roller skating, we would go to the Double K and have a buck burger. Double K had the best milkshakes and onion rings.

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Going to school in Norfolk OK, if he paid his own way Paid own way My memory of Norfolk begins at Hoskins where I went to school for my first 10 years.

When I was a junior in high school, I asked my dad if I could go to Norfolk High School where there were more opportunities.

He let me go as long as I could pay my way while in Norfolk. I was to have room and board at Ervin Haase’s, a farmer two miles north of Norfolk.

The first day of school I took my bicycle and not knowing where the school was, I ended up at the junior high school two blocks south of Norfolk Avenue.

They told me I had to go to the senior high, which is now the junior high on South Fifth Street.

Everything went well until basketball season began. I went out for basketball and didn’t get to Haases until 6 p.m.

Chores and supper were over, and I was asked to find a different place to stay. My brother, Bob, was working at Nash Finch so

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I stayed with him. To earn my way, I set up pins at the Norfolk bowling alley, starting at 7 p.m. until 10:30 p.m.

I could not make enough money to stay at Norfolk High, so I returned to Hoskins for my senior year.

My class there started with 12 students and ended with nine of us graduating.

— Edward Gnirk Hoskins

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We bought the house and later donated it to the fire department to use for training purposes.

They hung stuffed dummies out of the first and second-floor windows so the firefighters could practice rescuing people.

(This was before they had their training facility on East Benjamin Avenue.)

We had a number of phone calls from excited people who saw the activity and wondered what was happening. Other people stopped and watched.

The building was eventually demolished, and the excitement disappeared.

— Virgil Froehlich Norfolk

Palace place to be In the late 1940s and ’50s, Norfolk teens had several places to congregate.

Junior high kids hung out at the Iceberg located at what is now the northeast corner of Norfolk Avenue and Sixth Street.

Senior high kids went to the Palace after school and in the evening.

The Palace was first owned by the Bandrige family, then the Olsons and then the Wagners. It was at 303 Madison Ave. For the teens old enough to drive, there was the A&W Drive-in at 305 S. Fourth St. owned by Bill and Lucky Waugh.

They offered mexiburgers, Waughmaids, fries and big mugs of A&W root beer.

They later moved to a location on South 13th Street.

After approximately 200 of us worked on the project for almost a year, on Sept.

18, 1953, a Teen Canteen was opened in the basement of the Koenigstein Building.

There were two ping pong tables, a jukebox, a billiard table, a television and a snack bar.

It was sponsored by the Rev. Adrian Edgar and some local businessmen. Of course, there were dances at King’s Ballroom.

All of this was available before the Konopaseks opened the Double K. — Jay Matthews Norfolk

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Back when the LaVitsef Festival and parade were new, it was the custom of established businesses to have an entry in the parade.

It could be said that in doing so “a good time was had by all.”

Our business, Stanley Petroleum Maintenance, was new and growing, and we thought it would be good to participate. So we threw an old gas pump into the back of a pickup and had some fairly young kids ride in it.

Every year, those kids begged to “do it again” — even when they became old kids and the festival was not so new and fresh. That same urge to “do it again” happened every year until taking part was no longer an option.

We were lucky enough to have a classic muscle car — a 1970 Barracuda convertible in a glowing lime green color.

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Cruisin’ Main street is memory lane. Cruising was fun in the good old days. One year on Halloween we tossed eggs at cars ... one of which was driven by an undercover policeman.

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We took the corner on First Street too fast and hit the bridge. The Good Old Days.

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I fell to my knees and started to cry. My boyfriend pulled me up and held me tight.

He said, “We’ll get them honey; don’t worry, we’ll get them.” And we did, but it took a long time.

I remember the food rationing, and the stamp books and standing in line at the grocery store to get a pound of hamburger and stretching it for three meals.

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So many great memories of Norfolk, but where do I start? One that comes to mind is Norfolk’s old Cigar Store downtown.

It was tradition for our family to stop nearly ever Sunday morning after church to buy a newspaper and sometimes horse racing forms for our dad or grandpa.

It was a “big” deal to us kids as we got to run in with money of our own and come back to the car with a favorite piece or two of penny candy.

I remember the Cigar Store being on Norfolk Avenue, but it later moved to the ground floor of the Hotel Madison (or old Kensington building). Such a lesson in independence it was to be trusted with the money to get something for Mom and Dad. Another fond memory for me was my first job at the Cinema I Theater downtown from 1978 to 1979. Of course, memories of Dorothy Korn come to mind, but for me, getting to know and work with Dorothy’s, sister Margaret Sommerfeld, and her husband, Roy, and their family was the greatest joy of all, and we remain friends still today.

Another favorite memory doesn’t involve a certain place, but a certain person.

As a teenager in the 1970’s, I attended many Junior Legion and Legion baseball games at Memorial Field where I first became familiar with the voice of the announcer, Don Kraemer.

His play-by-play on the radio for so many sporting events through my high school years was the absolute next best thing to being there.

I still have the cassette tape recording of his announcing the famous Norfolk High boys basketball state championship win.

He was as excited as every single one of us listening back home, and I have no doubt the tears leaking from my eyes that night were similar to those in his eyes, too.

And who could forget all those Saturday morning Sports Talks! I hope wherever he is, he’s enjoying sleeping in on Saturday mornings now.

There was a real honesty to Don’s broadcasting that in my opinion will never be matched, never fake or put on. What a great job he always did at keeping kids’ names straight, offering coaching comments, crowd reactions, etc. You were the best Don! We miss you.

— Roberta Groninger Norfolk

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If you threw them some peanuts, the monkeys would grab them and jump on their swings to crack them open and eat them.

A person did not want to get too close to the cage or

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In May 1955, there was a help wanted ad for a typesetter at the Norfolk Daily News.

I was graduating in May from Ewing Public School, and typing was my special thing. My mom encouraged me to apply for the job. Mom took me to Norfolk in their 1948 Ford so I could take a typing test. I passed the test with flying colors and so my new job started.

My boss was Florence Roggenbach. The Norfolk Daily News was then on Fourth Street in a brick building. I think the office was downstairs and the typesetters were located upstairs.

In those days there was no air conditioning, and it was really hot upstairs. At that time, I didn’t have a car, no driver’s license, and I stayed with a cousin and slept on the sofa. Later, I got an upstairs apartment on the main street of Norfolk. Again no air conditioning.

I remember some of the staff at the News at that time, including Gene and Jerry Huse, Fred Stafford, Nelson Barth and Don Pieper. Some of the typesetters were Lynn (Henning) Rowan, Joan (Nierman) Schulz and Shirley Schultz.

The typesetters typed ticker tape in code. We put it in a container, and it was sent to the pressroom downstairs where it was printed.

They then sent it back, and typesetters proofed their own copy and corrected their mistakes and sent it back again.

I was only 17 years old at the time. It was the first time I had been away from home, and I was very homesick, so I quit.

In September, I found a job in Neligh at the Antelope County’s Treasurer’s Office. I got a driver’s license to drive my 1942 Ford coupe to work. I was in heaven. Ha! Little did I know that I wasn’t done with the newspaper business.

After getting married in 1959 and having four children, I was asked to work at the Elgin Review with George Voorhies, the owner and editor.

I worked for him for 30 years. I grew to love the newspaper business, and to this day I still miss all the things that I did.

— Donna (Mlnarik) Mackel Elgin

Christmas memories When I was a child growing up in the 1960s we shopped in Norfolk about once a month. Stores would be open on Thursday

nights to accommodate those who worked during the day. I was too young to drive, and Mom refused to learn, so Dad would take us down and often wait in the car while the “womenfolk” made their purchases.

I remember being very small and going in a long, narrow shop on the north side of Norfolk Avenue.

Dad needed a new suit, and Mom and I sat in nice chairs while he was measured and tried on various coats and pants.

Around Christmas time, it was very cold, but we were in town to purchase gifts.

There was a tobacco shop on one of the side streets where Mom and I purchased cherry pipe tobacco for Dad. I overheard Mom saying at some point in time that there were naughty magazines under the counter. I was older when I understood what she meant. To this day I can still smell Dad’s pipe, which he smoked in the evenings.

Every Easter Mom was on a quest for a new hat. Dad would leave us to go talk guns and hunting with a Mr. Cauuwe, another shop on a side street just off of Norfolk Avenue.

The ladies department of the store was upstairs, and I wish I could recall the name. I bought my white confirmation dress there, white gloves sometimes and when I was older, my blue prom dress.

Mom usually found a hat, but she was happy when the fashion of wearing them went out.

When I was able to drive, we always made a stop at Gibson’s. Mom bought her hair dye, home perms and face powder there. We just enjoyed looking around sometimes. We never stopped for a meal — maybe an ice cream cone or a cup of coffee and a roll for Mom and Dad — but never a meal. I often wonder what they would think of all the restaurants and cafes now.

Then there was the winter I needed a new winter coat. We went to Silik’s. Mom looked at dresses, and I tried on coats. I found one I liked, and Mom said she’d “bite the bullet” and pay the $68. It was a high price for a coat, but it served me well.

When I got my learner’s permit, I drove the folks to Norfolk on Sunday afternoons to see John Wayne at the Granada. Dad liked westerns, and Mom enjoyed getting out. Gosh, the movies were swell. We didn’t buy popcorn or anything, just enjoyed the show.

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Stops at neighborhood store, theater were highlights of visit back in 1940s

It was the autumn of 1957, and I had graduated in May from Oto High School in Oto, Iowa, and I wanted to go to college.

With my brothers Jim and Jack, both at Wayne State, and my sister Mary in business college in Des Moines, my dad told me he couldn’t afford to have four of us in college, and I would have to wait.

I had worked that summer in Omaha, staying with an aunt and uncle, but it wasn’t enough.

Duane King, a student at Nebraska Christian College in Norfolk, was ministering at the Church of Christ in Anthon, Iowa, and heard about my situation from our neighbor who went to his church.

He helped me enroll in Norfolk Junior College and told my dad I could stay in the Christian College dorm for $13 a month, and that was room and board.

I had to take one class at the Christian college.

The only problem was they didn’t serve meals on the weekends. I wrote home and asked Mom and Dad to send me some money. I got back a 3-cent postcard that said, “We love you. Get a job.”

Sure wish I had kept it.

Not being able to buy a copy of The Norfolk Daily News, I walked up and down Main Street and saw a help wanted ad in the window of the F and H Cafe.

They put me right to work.

My first impression of Norfolk was great, but Frank and Helen were the type of people that made Norfolk even more likeable.

When they sold the cafe, I went to work at Mary’s Cafe.

Now along with Frank and Helen you couldn’t have asked for a better ambassador for Norfolk than Mary O’Gorman.

She helped me finish college and get my teaching certificate.

After 40 years of teaching, I bought my own restaurant and all because of three wonderful Norfolk people. People truly make a town memorable.

— Marlene Petersen Tilden

I was born in 1942 and raised southwest of Plainview where my father, Harold Beltz, was a farmer.

My mother’s parents, John and Elsie Linstadt, had moved from Pierce to Norfolk. Grandpa John was employed at the old ABC Bowling Alley and Pool Hall.

When we would visit, Grandma usually remembered she needed something from the neighborhood grocery and would send us kids to fetch it.

Of course, we always were given a nickel or a dime to spend for a treat for ourselves! We also were treated to an occasional Sunday afternoon matinee at the Granada theater, which was within walking distance from my grandparents’ home.

Grandpa John was known as the man in charge at the pool hall and ruled it with an iron fist.

My father and brothers spent time with him there learning to play a mean game of pool!

There were trips during those growing years to the Norfolk Hatchery to bring home baby chicks to raise. We children (I have three brothers) were the caretakers and shared in the profits if any were sold.

There were also trips with Mom and my aunts to go rummaging on Thursdays, sometimes to find treasures and sometimes necessities, that we could not afford to buy new.

There was a large auction house where I talked Mom into buying the piano that I longed for so I could learn to play. The one we

found was very reasonably priced. The only thing we had not realized was that it was much larger than we thought. It was an old player piano and did not look that big in the auction house.

When Dad brought it home, he had to dismantle the door frame to get it in the house. This purchase led to more memories at Tom’s Music House where I could buy books I needed to teach myself to play.

My first full-time job was at Henning’s Bakery on Norfolk Avenue, but my desire was to be an office secretary. Mr. Henning was an excellent employer, and it was hard to leave.

I also remember Child’s Bakery west of us on Norfolk Avenue. Both places created wonderful things!

I applied for work advertised by Howard Strong, architect, and Everett Simpson, engineer, and was hired to be their secretary/ receptionist. Their office was located on Norfolk Avenue above the dime stores.

Mr. Strong allowed me time off to attend the old Norfolk Junior College.

Some of my classmates also had moved to Norfolk for work, and before long we found one another and shared apartments.

We enjoyed eating at the small cafes that are now gone — Hotel Madison Coffee Shop, the Blue Bell Café that made delicious pies and our favorite places — Mary’s Café and the old Double K Drive In when it was located at Pasewalk and 13th Street. Their tender pork sandwich was so big we would ask them to put it on two buns, and it would feed two of us.

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Duane Field and I married in 1961, and spent five years in Mississippi while he was in the Air Force and then returned to Norfolk to be near our families.

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