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Summers
Past
~ Vintage Cars ~
~ Fairs ~
Thursday,
July 31, 2008
Senior
Focus
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There’s just something about ...
Jim Whipple
loves restoring
cars and trucks
of yore ... and in
the process, he
gets a new
lease on life, too
By Mark Fode
Romance or, as Jim Whipple
puts it, disease?
That’s the tug-of-war going
on in the mind of at least one
car collector. On one hand, Jim
Whipple, a lifelong resident of
Pipestone, can escape into a
quieter world that allows him to
make something special out of
something that someone else has
discarded. On the other hand, he
says: “It’s expensive … I don’t know
why I do it.”
That’s when the “disease” word
comes up.
Truth be known, Jim — and
millions like him across the
country — find delight in escaping
into the world of older cars. Some
were fortunate enough to save and
restore their own cars. Others, like
Jim, have always liked cars and
when they see a project, they grab
it, just like a woodworker or any
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Most recently, Jim finished a
1951 Dodge pickup that he spotted
on the roadside near Renner, S.D.
He spied the vehicle, a rather
dilapidated pickup, and on several
subsequent trips down the same
road, passed the vehicle before
finally stopping in to ask the owner
the price of the vehicle. After a
period of haggling, Jim became
the proud owner of a pickup that
would not run and was rather
unsightly.
Three
years later — Jim
estimates he spends an average
(Above) Jim Whipple is the
proud owner of a 1969 Dodge
Super Bee, a car originally
purchased by this son. His
son ultimately sold the Bee
to his father, adding to Whipple’s fleet of classic Dodge
vehicles.
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to original running order, so he
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different efforts to repair the car,
from engine to interior, to the new
oak bed railing on the pickup.
The cost of the effort would
be even more significant was not
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of the 1951 pickup, Jim found
that the dashboard controls no
longer worked. He overrode those
controls with a new cluster, but
kept the dashboard intact for
appearances, giving the pickup
the special 1951 feel. He installed
his own headliner kit, and also
put in a new $900 seat to replace
the open space that was there
when he bought the truck. On the
outside, he did all of the sanding
and repairs, painstaking work that
pays off when the finished product
is standing tall — as this pickup
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has
produced
many
more
diamonds in the rough like the 1951
pickup. There is the 1969 Dodge (he
has a thing about Dodges) Super
Bee, a rare muscle car that his son
purchased and then sold to his
dad. The Super Bee, which features
“bee” reflectors at the front and
back is joined by a 1984 Dodge
Rampage pickup, an El Camino
lookalike, and a beautiful yellowand-green 1956 Chevy, which he
bought for $300 years ago.
“The best part is driving and
enjoying them,” Jim says, perhaps,
one thing, spilling the beans on
the motive for this daunting hobby.
“But I can also escape the phones.
Some days, I work eight hours out
here in my garage.” He utilizes
local businesses, like welding
shops and wreckers, to assist with
the work. He doesn’t back down
from challenges; he has purchased
vehicles with smashed grills and
fenders, but patiently attacks the
problems, pounding out dents,
and cutting out bad spots.
He visits local stores and finds
parts that he knows can be used
as replacement parts for the old
ones that no longer can be made
to function.
“I’ve always enjoyed cars, but
when I was a kid, we always just
had junkers,” Jim says. “My first car
was a 1950 Hudson that I bought
with a cracked head. But we took
it apart and got it running.” But if
he could replace one of his older
cars, it would be the lightning-fast
1962 Chrysler 300 that he drove as
a teener. “I blew the motor up,” he
said. “I had tried to buy one two,
three years ago but the guy sold
it to someone else. If I could find
a bronze one like I had, I would
probably buy it. But I already
have four cars now. Maybe that’s
enough.”
While men and women seem to
develop an emotional attachment
to the cars they lovingly restore,
Jim says that isn’t his story. “I don’t
know what it is,” he shrugs. “When
you think about it, it takes too
much time and money. Once you
get these vehicles all taken apart,
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(Above) “Bee” reflectors
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That’s a lot of money.”
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they probably say ‘this is my last
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the bend, and another potential
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Generations of tradition
By Katie Winter
This undated photo shows two livestock winners from the
Pipestone County Fair.
The twinkle of lights and the
clatter of carnival rides mixed with
the smell of farm animals and the
sweetness of cotton candy are sure
signs a county fair is in full swing.
County fairs are always a feast
for the senses and over the past
century the Pipestone County Fair
has been no different. From the
beef feeds to the beef shows, the fair
has entertained tens of thousands
in Southwest Minnesota.
Bill and Doreen Thies were
active members of the fair board
for many years. Bill became the
director in 1965 and stayed in
that position for the next 40 years.
He was in charge of lining up
exhibition judges and grandstand
acts. The couple would often travel
to the fair convention in St. Paul
to preview and book performers.
Over the years they brought in
the Britain Brothers, Sherwin
Linton and in 1994 country music
superstar Faith Hill before she
made it big. Bill said selecting
affordable acts often meant taking
a chance on entertainers.
“When these county fairs bring
in some of these acts like that,”
Bill said, “you never know which
ones are going to take off and do
real great so the people should not
miss seeing them.”
The first Pipestone County Fair
was Sept. 23-24, 1910. Baseball
and basketball games provided
the entertainment as did a band
contest. Horse and bike races were
also popular pastimes. Admission
to the grounds during those early
years was 25 cents for adults and
15 cents for school children. The
grandstand shows were free.
During the next years new
exhibition buildings went up as
the crowds grew to an average of
10,000 people for the three days.
During the Thieses’ time with
the fair the grandstands were not
the only arena bursting at the
seams. The livestock barns were
at capacity as were the midway
with all its rides and the open class
building with the assortment of
plants, art work and craft projects
meticulously put together by
young and old alike.
“The county fair provided
something for everybody in the
community,” Bill said. “As you
would look out over the grounds
you would see all these people
out there. It made you feel good
that there were that many people
interested.”
Doreen attended her first
Pipestone County Fair as a
teenager. She and a group of
friends saw Spike Jones in concert
for $1
“It was sort of a loud (act),”
Doreen said. “But it was a big deal
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as farm kids. We didn’t get to go to
places like that very often.”
Many of the farm kids also
brought the farm with them to the
county fair. The mass of livestock
was a result of the popularity of 4H and FFA clubs at the time. Youth
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one time there were more clubs riding class and the halter class.
than booth space. The swine barn “Showing was the most fun,”
was just packed full of hogs. It used she said. “It was the challenge of
to be horses were tied side by side showing against other people and
there were that many horses, and trying to do a really good job.”
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very close together there were that to be as big as a horse to earn
recognition though. Hundreds of
many cattle.”
Animals first brought Bill to the vegetables, flowers, baked goods
Pipestone County Fair 1949 as a and arts and crafts projects filled
six-year-old from the Flandreau, the open class building. Drawings
S.D. area. He was with his dad who were plastered to walls. Cornstalks
showed Hampshire and Suffolk lounged in corners and canned
sheep in the open class sheep peaches rested on tables. Doreen
show. His family and their lambs recalled not all the open class
would become regulars at the fair projects belonged to adults.
for the next seven years. Fair weeks “One department that really
went up in the open class was the
usually equaled one thing for Bill.
art the kids started bringing in,”
“It was work,” he said.
Another fair exhibitor that Doreen said. “I think the teachers
shared in a family tradition of were pushing it in school. We had
showing animals at the fair was to divide it up because the kids
Pipestone resident Laurie Merrill. were competing against adults. So
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“We showed livestock,” Merrill on Sept. 27, 1889 and businesses
said. “My dad did it. My uncle did and merchants took advantage of
it. Then us kids were in it. There the opportunity to showcase their
was not very many years where wares to visiting fair goers. The
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Horses have been a staple of the fairs in Pipestone County since they started in the 1890s. The horse races, wagon races and horse shows were sure to
draw large crowds.
The fair has not changed all that
much during that past decades.
Vendors are still advertising the
latest trends and products in house
wares and gardening. The art of
microwave cooking swept through
the Pipestone County Fair one year,
Doreen recalled. Many women
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assortment of meals that could
be created with the new cooking
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techniques of macramé.
“It was an opportunity for
commercial vendors to present,“
Doreen said. “People could see
that and get ideas.“
For Bill and Doreen though fair
was about family. Their kids were
always along with them helping
out with events. The many fair
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the couple as well.
“Over the years we met so many
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Indians once ruled the roost
By Mark Fode
Wally Melby is pushing 75 these
days but he’ll always be a “boy of
summer” when he remembers
1958, when his Pipestone Indians
reigned supreme over all other
Class B amateur baseball teams in
Minnesota with a 31-6 record.
Mention the Indians and a big
smile comes to Melby’s face, as he
recalls the good times, including
his “sensational catch” (as called by
the Pipestone County Star) in a 3-0
late-season win over Worthington.
It was a special time for “town
ball” in America, and Minnesota
was no different. Earning a spot
on the Indians roster was no small
feat in those days, where it seemed
that every shopowner in town
recognized and admired Indians
players. On nights when games
The Pipestone baseball nine captured their
first state amateur baseball title in 1958, producing
many memories for players and fans alike
were in town (at the fairgrounds),
fans like Eddie Vockrodt, who
handed out chewing gum to the
players, were common place.
Guys like Wally Melby were held
in high esteem during a time when
folks didn’t rush to their television
sets for entertainment, especially
when the Indians were playing.
Melby was a pitcher-outfielder
for an Indians team that featured
a “murderer’s row” of hitters and
some standout pitchers. Over the
last two months of the long 1958
campaign…which continued until
late September…the Indians lost
only a couple of games, one of
those to Class A champion Austin
in the exhibition game matchup
of state champions after the state
tournament trophy had already
been won. The Indians also topped
the Wisconsin champion, Bangor,
2-1 to win the annual WisconsinMinnesota Interstate trophy. The
beautiful trophies still rest in a
case at the Pipestone city office
building.
Melby was one of seven Indians
players who hit more than .300
during the season as the Indians
powered to the title, and pitched
and patrolled the outfield for
the Indians. As noted earlier, he
had a game-saving catch against
Worthington, a line drive “that
looked certain to go for extra
bases,” the Pipestone County Star
reported. “Melby twisted himself
all out of shape in his last desperate
lunge, which snared the ball out of
the air.”
Few losses for Indians
One of those few Indian losses,
however, came against fellow First
Night League powerhouse Fulda,
9-6 in one of the rare games when
star lefty Dick Hellmer didn’t have
his best stuff. But the Indians
came roaring back, shaking off
the misstep, to win the next three
games of the best-of-five series
against the Giants, then polished
off Hadley in three to earn another
trip to the state tournament at New
Ulm.
Pipestone
then
blanked
Menagha, 10-0 as Jack Kelly
homered, one of four Indians to
collect two hits, routed Marble,
16-5 as Kelly and Ken Kielty both
went four-for-six, and wrapped
up the first championship in any
sport in the community’s history
with a 5-3 win over Norwood in
the championship game. Fulda
draftee Del Koopman got the
championship game start for
Pipestone and worked six strong
innings. But for a time, it looked
like the Indians may be in for more
of a battle as Norwood’s Lefty
Graupman fanned six of the first
seven Indians hitters. The Indians
finally broke out with a five-hit
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Indians had aces like Hellmer and
Lane Johnson, as well as pickup
players like Koopman and Jim
Klassen.
“Some great memories,” Melby
said recently as he prepared to
head out for his new sport, golfing.
“Every home game was a big thing
in town, we had huge crowds.
Eddie (Vockrodt) would give every
guy a stick of Wrigley’s gum. We
had a very competitive league.”
When the team won the state
tournament, Wally remembers,
players were welcomed back to
town in a “motorcade” of sorts
down main street. Wearing their
Pipestone Indians jackets, the
members of the team waved to
their friends and supporters.
The Indians, adding more
pitching to their already good
supply, would win the state again
in 1960, but Wally wasn’t around.
By that time, his family had moved
to Clark, S.D., after flooding forced
him to move.
But Melby returned for the 40year reunion of the team in 1999;
many of the members of the team
were there, proving, once again,
that desire, not money, motivates
the town team ballplayer, and that
the championship was best for
memories, not endorsements.
As Wally held the championship
trophy — for the first time in about
50 years — he stressed the fun it
was to be part of the team. “We
just had a great bunch of guys,” he
said. “This isn’t at all about me. It
“Some great
memories.”
—Wally Melby
was a highlight for me, for my 12
years of playing ball. It was a lot of
fun because we had a mix of older
guys and young kids. Dick Hellmer
was just a junior in high school. It
was a great time and we had a good
ballclub.”
Featured in book
The wonderful 2006 book, “Town
Ball: The Glory Days of Minnesota
Amateur Baseball,” pays homage
to the Indians with a two-page
article and a photo of the Indians.
Writers Armand Peterson and Tom
Tomashek interviewed playermanager Ken Kielty, third sacker
Butch Raymond and outfielder
Pete Spawn for the article.
Kielty told the authors that the
Indians “probably had a better
team the year before, but let it get
away in the semifinals. We didn’t
want to win the tournament at
any cost, we just wanted to win it
straight up and we expected no
less from the rest of the field.”
The Indians had received the
state tournament sportsmanship
trophy the year before but set their
sights higher in 1958.
(Above) Wally Melby stands by the Indians’ Class B state amateur title trophy, right, and another piece of hardware that signifies the Indians’ 2-1 victory against Bangor, Wis., in the
Wisconsin-Minnesota Interstate championship.
third inning, with Kelly’s two-run
single the big blow.
Many thought Kelly, who now
resides in Windom as a longtime coach there, should have
been most valuable player in the
tournament.
Fond memories
Melby grew up as many local
boys of the time did, watching
hometown heroes like Lefty
Woolheater (“The best pitcher
I ever saw,” Melby says) mow
through hitters at the fairgrounds.
Melby worked his way through
little league baseball and, after the
era of paid players ended, he found
himself on the Indians roster.
“I remember watching games
where there were 5,000 people
watching Lefty Woolheater,” Melby
recalls. “The grandstand was
always filled.” Melby began playing
on the second Pipestone Indians
team, the same year he was also a
member of the South Dakota state
champion independent basketball
team from Flandreau.
Melby later moved to Clark, S.D.,
where he pitched and played in that
state’s season-ending tournament
at Watertown. He finally retired at
40 years of age in 1967.
“I know we only lost six games
that season,” Melby says. “We had
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get the ball to pitch in the state
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