blend fertilizer plant in Feb. 1976. Also put in a new and bigger scale. His wife Sandra is his favorite secretary and his two boys, Steve and Wade and daughter Gina are a big help in the business too. Delwain Norman has worked for Jess for twelve years. Jess gets extra help during the busy fertilizer season. Dennis Elevator used to be the old Anchor Grain.

Keith Lackas Trucking:

Mr. and Mrs. Keith Lackas and boys moved into town, in the Larry Gillilan home, in March 1960 from the farm north of town. They bought the livestock trucks from Ellis Tilton on Oct. 8, 1959. They hauled livestock into the cities until 1971. Then Keith went into hauling feed with his 1975 Ford diesel feed truck from out of Sioux City. He bought the old Ford garage in 1961 to house his trucks. The tornado took this building. They are in the process of building a new building a block south from the old one.

White Eagle Antique Shop

The Antique Shop is owned by Mr. and Mrs. Bill Long Sr. They came to Magnet on July 3, 1933 with six children and Mr. Long's brother John. That was during the dirty depression years. Mr. Long junked and hauled iron to Sioux City. In a year or so he started trucking grain and livestock. He went from a small truck to a semi-truck.

About 1943 he bought a suitcase welder to fix his own things. Then people started bringing things in to be fixed and so many people brought him things to be repaired that be built a cement block building for general repair work. Bill Long Jr. helped with the trucking. Later he and Warren Nelson bought the trucks. When Bill Jr. had to go into the service they sold the trucks to Floyd Dawson.

When Bill Jr. came home from the service he worked in the shop and they enlarged the building to the north and east. Mr. and Mrs. Long started buying and selling antiques out of the house also while running the repair shop. Then their other son Jim worked in the repair shop too, In April, 1967 they