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April 25, 1946
RANDOLPH - More Randolph men returning home from overseas service and receiving discharges include S2c Kenneth Dowling, William H. Collier, Jr., MM2c, Sgt. Verlin Adams and T/4 Wallace Johnson, and Coxswain Edward Carroll.
Coxswain Edward W. Carroll, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Carroll, Randolph, has returned home Friday after receiving his discharge at San Pedro, Calif.
He spent 20 months in a naval base in the Admiralties, arriving in the states last January. He has an Asiatic Pacific ribbon.
S2c Kenneth A. Dowling A recent discharge from the naval reserve was that of Seaman 2c Kenneth A. Dowling, who was separated from service at the St. Louis, Mo., separation center. He was in service 14 months.
Most of the time he was stationed on the USS Storm King, a troop transport, which plied the Pacific. He has the Asiatic-Pacific, Good Conduct and Victory medals.
He is now in Randolph with Mrs. Dowling, the former Dorothy Whalen, and their baby son, Francis. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Lester Dowling.
William H. Collier, Jr., MM2c William H. Collier, Jr., machinist’s mate second class, was discharged from the U. S. N. R. at San Pedro, Calif., April 7, 1946, and is at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Collier, Pasadena, Calif., formerly of Randolph.
He enlisted in the navy May 7, 1943, and completed 35 months of service, twenty-six months of which was spent on sea duty in the Pacific and Alaska.
Sgt. Verlin G. Adams Sgt. Verlin G. Adams was discharged April 11 at Camp Beale, Calif., after nearly three and onehalf years service in the army. He and Mrs. Adams, the former Jean Wichelman, have arrived here to visit his mother, Mrs. Mary Adams and other relatives. Sgt. Adams has been an x-ray technician at Dibble General hospital in Menlo Park, Calif., for over two years, and he will return to be employed there for an indefinite period.
T/4 Wallace L. Johnson T/4 Wallace L. Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Johnson, 414 S. Madison, El Dorado, Arkansas, and husband of the former Miss Phyllis Larson, Randolph, Nebr., was discharged from the army on April 18 at the Fort Douglas separation center.
April 25, 1946
RANDOLPH - E. H. Benson was elected to the board of supervisors of the Cedar County Soil Conservation District at the special election April 12.
He will serve a four-year term, and succeeds Vincent Anderson of Coleridge.
George Kast, Fordyce, was reelected to the board of supervisors of the Cedar County Soil Conservation District at the special election held April 12.
These two men are elected to serve four-year terms. The other supervisors are Roy Johnsen, Laurel; John Fleming, Hartington; and Marcus Becker, St. Helena.
The local soil conservation district has been in operation for the past two years. During this time complete conservation plans have been drawn on about 100 farms.
Leonard Miller, district conservationist, states that he has application from an additional ninety farmers. Some work has been done on most of these farms and complete conservation plans will be worked out for each farm.
Many farmers are plowing in gullies and seeding them to grass to prevent further erosion. Some terracing has been done on a few farms.
The most popular conservation practices in the county are grass seeding either for retirement, or rotation, and contour farming.
April 25, 1946
RANDOLPH - Pierce scored 47 points, 20 more than the second place team, to annex the Northeast Nebraska athletic conference track and field meet held at Hartington on Tuesday afternoon. The Randolph Cardinals with 27 points were second place winners.
Koehn of Pierce with 19¼ points was the meet’s individual high scorer, edging Adams of Randolph, who had 18 points, by one and one-quarter point. Adams made 18 of his team’s total points of 27, and only two other Randolph men on the Cards eight-man team tallied, Schutt making seven points and Gibson two.
With Pierce out in front and constantly building a bigger lead the battle of the meet was between Plainview, Randolph and Hartington for second place.
Randolph edged Plainview by one point as the latter team scored 26, while Hartington was in the fourth place with 24 points.
Koehn took first in the broad jump, high jump and 220, third in the discus, fourth in the 100, and ran a leg in the winning relay team, which gave him the 19¼ points needed to pass Adams, who won firsts in the discus and shot, third in the high and low hurdles, second in the pole vault, fourth in the high jump and fifth in the 100-yard dash.
April 26, 1951
RANDOLPH — The Methodist Church, the first church founded in Randolph and the only church organization here for a number of years, will mark the 65th anniversary of its founding.
All day services April 29 will observe the occasion. The church was organized in the fall of 1886 following the building of the Omaha railroad through this locality and the founding of the village of Randolph.
April 26, 1951
RANDOLPH — Leroy D. Beltz of Randolph was one of 70 University of Nebraska honors convocation Tuesday in the coliseum. Mr. Beltz, son of Mrs. Caroline Beltz, is a pharmacy student, studying for his master’s degree.
April 26, 1951
RANDOLPH — Seven delegates from St. Frances Academy attended the Vocational Guidance program April 22 at Holy Name Gymnasium in Omaha. The students accompanied by Sisters Dolorita and Hermine were Ruth Aschoff, Celine Neuhalfen, Bernice Spader, Lucille Aschoff and Alice Tramp.
