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• -- Production or sales at 57.3 in May, down from April's 63.2.
• And delivery lead time increased to 53.6 in May from April's 48.5.
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• CRAZY HORSE MEMORIAL, S.D. (AP) -- Crazy Horse Memorial is commemorating the 65th anniversary of the dedication of the monument with several activities in June.
• Monday marks the 65th anniversary of the dedication of the Crazy Horse Memorial and the first mountain blast.
• It's also the 15th anniversary of the dedication of the finished carved face of Crazy Horse.
• A blast will take place on Tuesday at 11 a.m. to commemorate the anniversary.
• The summer's weekly performance and lecture series starts on Thursday and runs through Aug. 29.
• Two night blasts are scheduled for later in the month to commemorate the anniversary of the 1876 Battle of the Little Big Horn and Memorial CEO Ruth Ziolkowski's (jew-uhl-KUFF'-skee) birthday.
• The memorial is a mountain carving in progress that will honor Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse.
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• MOBRIDGE, S.D. (AP) -- Two men were killed in a one-vehicle crash in Corson Count over the weekend.
• The South Dakota Highway Patrol says 61-year-old James Joseph Olesen, of Hot Springs, was driving east on 110th Street Sunday morning when he lost control of his vehicle and it rolled into a ditch. Olesen and a passenger, 56-year-old Michael Hatlestad, of Pierre, were thrown from the vehicle and died at the scene. Neither man was wearing a seatbelt.
• The South Dakota Highway Patrol is investigation.
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• Wet conditions continue to hamper farmers in SD
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Cool wet conditions have prevented farmers and ranchers in South Dakota from making progress planting crops.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture says in its weekly crop report that producers had on average only 2.1 days suitable for fieldwork.
• Winter wheat conditions were rated 34 percent very poor, 24 percent poor, 31

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