Bob Dole with hometown friend Bub Dawson. The Dawson family owned the drugstore where Senator Dole worked
as a soda jerk as a teenager. After he was wounded, Dawson's became the focal point for the local Russell community raising
funds to help pay for Senaor Dole's operations -- and effort led by Bub and Chet Dawson and high school friend, Phil Ruppenthal.