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Feb. 22, 1951
RANDOLPH - Four Randolph youths, Donnelly and Ellis Stultz, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Stultz, and Don and Alton Clark, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn R. Clark, enlisted the past week in the U. S. army. Their enlistment was for a period of three years.
Donnelly Stultz and Alton Clark are Magnet high graduates, Ellis Stultz is a Randolph high graduate. All four have been farming in the community north of Randolph.
Feb. 22, 1951
RANDOLPH - The Cards finished the home season for 1951 Tuesday night with a 57-51 win over Laurel for their fifth conference win, after putting up a good battle before bowing to a tall Battle Creek 41-50 Friday night on the home court.
For the first time in a month, the Cards showed some of the spark and hustle of their early season play as they played a rangy classy Battle Creek outfit. The Cards pressed sharply in the second half and at one time crept to within six points of Battle Creek, whose style of play was cramped by the Cards’ aggressiveness. Schenck with 15 points, and Wurdinger with 10 led the scoring for Randolph. Brummels, who has been off the squad because of an operation, was a welcome addition early to the Randolph five and played an alert game. Bauermeister with 14 and Carstens with 13 points paced Battle Creek.
Randolph 57 — Laurel, 51 The Cards suffered a let-down from the Battle Creek game, but they rode out an early lead to come out on top. Laurel’s proficiency at the free throw line came near being the telling point as they collected 19 out of 26 chances.
Wiedenfeld of Laurel and Scott of Randolph each dunked in 25 points for high scoring. Schenck’s consistency and outstanding play at guard as he fed the ball to Scott made possible Randolph’s victory.
The Randolph second team lost to Battle Creek 33-26 as Larry Lewis led both teams scoring with 10.
Feb. 22, 1951
RANDOLPH - Alfred Nelson, prominent Randolph businessman and a pioneer in the automotive business here, announces the sale of his Chevrolet auto dealership and garage to Edward Nissen of Hartington, formerly of Plainview.
The garage was closed several days last week for inventory but was reopened for business Saturday, with the new management in charge. The business transaction has been a subject of conversation in Randolph for several weeks but arrangements relative to the transfer of the dealership franchise and other matters made necessary withholding formal announcement until now.
Mr. Nelson has been in the automotive business here since 1913, when he was first employed as a mechanic by Martin Buol in the Buol garage.
In announcing the sale of the business Mr. Nelson said he intended to take a long deserved rest. He and Mrs. Nelson are retaining their home here and will continue to make Randolph their place of residence.
Mr. Nelson is one of Randolph’s oldest business men in years of business here, and he was the only remaining car dealer here who had been continuously associated with that business since its earliest days.
In 1917, the firm of Brenner and Buol was formed and Mr. Nelson worked for them and later he and Lee Brenner bought out Pruden and Sellon, and then were dealers for Buick, Dodge and Chevrolet cars.
Brenner and Nelson took over the Chevrolet dealership in 1924.
Feb. 22, 1951
RANDOLPH - Cpl. Darwin Wilson Has Tank Shot from under Him Twice During Korean Battles Cpl. Darwin Wilson, with the 89th Medium Tank Battalion of the 25th Division on the Korean battlefront, has narrowly escaped death or injury a second time, he reported to his sister, Mrs. Paul Wattier, in a letter she received recently.
The first time his tank was shot from under him all of his crew were killed, this occurred near the Changjin Reservoir during the retreat staged by U. N. forces when the Chinese Reds entered the war. The second time a tank was shot from under him was during patrol action north of Seoul. He was then returned to a rest camp from where he wrote his sister on January 25. He expected to return to duty the next day.
Cpl. Wilson writes that the troops are confused because the fighting see-saws, first the Communists and then the U. N. forces on the offensive. He stated that it was his belief that many lives could have been saved and casualties prevented if seasoned infantry troops had been used by the U. N. rather than the comparatively green troops that were sent in many cases.
