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May 30, 1946
LAUREL — Alvin Frahm, who was recently discharged from the merchant marine, is visiting his brother, William Frahm, and family.
May 30, 1946
LAUREL — Pfc. Harvey Stapelman, brother of Mrs. Donald Most, was a member of the reception committee appointed to greet Gen. Dwight Eisenhower on his recent visit to Guam.
May 30, 1946
HARTINGTON - Gerald Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Miller of Hartington, and Miss Shirley Tuttle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Tuttle of Hartington, have been selected as the most outstanding boy and girl in 4-H Club work in Cedar county in 1945. They were announced as winners of the annual honor at the county 4-H achievement party in the Hartington city auditorium Friday.
In recognition of their work they will be presented with engraved wall plaques which are awarded each year to the outstanding boy and girl by The Cedar County News.
Miller, who also received the county championship 4-H medal for meat animal production in 1945, is now serving in the armed forces at Chanute Field, Ill.
He was active in club work eight years and was a member of the Pleasant Valley Baby Beef club. He served as leader of the club in 1944 and 1945.
Miss Tuttle, who also received the county championship medal in homemaking, is a member of the Three C’s club and has been in 4-H work for three years. During this time she completed the following projects: Cooking, summer wardrobe, poultry, homemaking, and garden and yard beautification.
Other county champions were announced as follows: Rudy Kelsch, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Kelsch of Randolph, yard beautification; Elizabeth Wilcox, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Wilcox of Coleridge, sewing; Vernon Neuhalfen, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Neuhalfen of Hartington, gardening; Dewin Wilcox, Coleridge, tractors.
More than 200 4-H Club members, their parents and leaders attended the achievement party at which special recognition was given to several club leaders.
Mrs. Ira Wilcox received a silver four-leaf clover pin for five years of leadership of 4-H clubs. She led the Happy Hour Bird club in 1940 and 1941, and has been leader of the Pearl Creek 4-H club since 1942. Her clubs have completed projects in learning to sew, summer wardrobe and girl’s room. This year’s club is carrying the learning to cook project.
May 30, 1946
LAUREL — After four years of uncertainty regarding the fate of his 93 year old father and his stepmother in England, C. C. Beckley of Laurel has received word that they survived the war and the bombings to which England was subjected.
Two letters received within the past six weeks advised Mr. Beckley that his parents had escaped the bombings but that his father was not so well. The family lived at Birmingham near a plane factory which was bombed several times.
Mr. Beckley’s father, Cooper Beckley, was at one time a famous English bicyclist and became a gold medalist twice for winning cross-country races.
