1949: Bucking horse tryout staged

75 Years Ago - Oct. 13, 1949 RANDOLPH – Frank Sohler will stage a bucking horse tryout event Sunday, October 16. There will be many rodeo producers there to look over and bid on the stock, which will be auctioned off after each ride is completed with Dick Payne as the auctioneer.

Roy Bailey, rancher of Custer, S.Dak., will bring 20 0f his top bucking horses here for the event, and ten head will be brought from Rapid City, S.Dak. Stockmen are invited to bring in any suitable horses they have for sale.

The show, to be held at Oak Park ranch, begins at two o’clock and in case of rain will be held on the following Sunday, October 23. *** RANDOLPH – A severe wind storm, with terrific winds which reached a velocity of 78 miles an hour in gusts, lashed Randolph and surrounding territory and all of northeastern Nebraska Monday morning, creating wide spread heavy damage.

The heavy wind was first noted by the official weather bureau station at Norfolk as starting about one o’clock Monday morning, the wind then averaged 50 miles an hour from the southeast, with gusts registering a velocity of 66 miles an hour. Between four and 6:30 the wind averaged 35 miles an hour , with gusts up to 59 then rose to an average of 55 to 60 with gusts of 75 miles between 6:45 and 7:30. The wind then shift to the southwest and continued at about a 50 miles average. Around 10 o’clock, the wind shifted again southwest and for half an hour the blasts were terrific. The wind began to abate somewhat by noon and by six o’clock Monday evening had gone down completely.

60 Years Ago - Oct. 8, 1964 RANDOLPH – A telegram received by Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Graham Tuesday from the Board of Missions of the Methodist church, informed them that their son-inlaw, Rev. Douglas L. Crowder, and four other men are safe and are expected to be evacuated soon.

The group of missionaries have been held by rebel forces at Wembo Nama, Africa, under house arrest. They, with their families, were detained at the mission station about two months ago when hostilities broke out, however the families were later released. *** RANDOLPH – Dan Dennis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Dennis, entered the St. Joseph hospital at Osmond Sunday and on Tuesday he was placed in a cast extending from his hips to beneath his arms. His injury, a compressed vertebra, has been troubling him since he played in the Randolph-Ponca football game on September 19.

The Randolph High senior will probably be in a cast for several months. He expects to return home from the the hospital Thursday (today).

50 Years Ago - Oct. 10, 1974 RANDOLPH – Queen Holly Olberding and King Cary Kruse reigned over Randolph High School Homecoming at the Randolph City Auditorium on Friday evening.

Holly is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norbert Olberding and Cary is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Marlyn Kruse.

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RANDOLPH – The freshman class of the Randolph High School received first place honors with their float in the Homecoming Parade held Friday afternoon. The World’s Greatest Athletes was the theme of the winning float.

40 Years Ago - Oct. 11, 1984 RANDOLPH – The Randolph City Council zipped through their agenda on Tuesday night, but spent the majority of the time deciding that they would buy a computer to be used in the city office.

Roger Carpenter spent about 45 minutes demonstrating machines that the council members had expressed interest in from an earlier demonstration. Carpenter showed the members of the council and the mayor two machines that ranged in price from approximately $4000 to the machine that they finally selected that was priced at $5826 that included software and material needed to for starting up and using the computer.

The council members selected an Apple Macintosh computer with 512K memory and an ImageWriter dot matrix printer along with material and $900 worth of software that is included in the purchase price. *** RANDOLPH – The Randolph Rescue Squad is organizing a community project to replace blood that Jayne Olson has used since her hospitalization several weeks ago.

Plans are underway for volunteers to make the needed trip to Lincoln to donate blood for Miss Olson who remains hospitalized at St. Elizabeth’s.

The trip to Lincoln will be made on Wednesday, October 17 by anyone who volunteers. The group is expected to leave Randolph at 6:00 a.m. Persons wanting to go in the group are asked to contact Mrs. Ray (Gladys) Patent during the daytime or Jim Billerbeck after 6:00 p.m. it is necessary that the volunteers make their plans known before Monday.

30 Years Ago - Oct. 12, 1994 RANDOLPH – City council members were presented with a suggestion by the Randolph Area Ventures Industrial Development Committee to help in establishing an industrial site north of Highway 20 by developing water and sewer service.

Dan Tunink made the presentation to the council.

Grant applications would be involved with the process to apply for funding and it appears water and sewer projects are favorable causes for grant funding or by other grant awards across the state. *** RANDOLPH – Superintendent James Troshynski reviewed the school evaluation follow up report which he will be submitting. The report follows up from the 1991 evaluation of the school.

All recommendations for the west school have been included in the west school addition, Troshynski said.

Other recommendations which have been followed up include: - a new shop door, - storage problems are being looked into, - industrial arts equipment has been improved, - handicap access is progressing, - the east school library has been enlarged by moving it into the assembly, - bus arrival and departure times and east and west schools are becoming more efficient by communication between the two schools, - drug control grant funds will help with curriculum, - computer improvements, - progress has been made on strengthening drama and speech areas.

20 Years Ago - Oct. 13, 2004 McLEAN – The “good neighbor” spirit was again exhibited in the area last week as relatives and friends gathered near McLean to harvest soybeans for Koehler Farms, a farm operation of the Don, Mark and Paul Koehler families. The project was a result of a cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment for Mark Koehler.

Volunteers took to the fields beginning at 10 a.m., on Friday, Oct. 8, to combine 400 acres of beans in three locations in the McLean-Magnet area. Coordinating arrangements were Ed Brummell and Neil Timmerman, Osmond.

The turnout was sensational, Brummell said. After a few phone calls, the plan traveled by word of mouth, he said so much so that some offers of help and equipment had to be declined. *** RANDOLPH – The Randolph City Council met Oct. 6 in regular session to review department reports.

City Administrator Cinda Jones reported there have been some changes in the survey requirements. Concerns over the chargers were discussed by the Council and it was decided to contact Sen. Doug Cunningham and the Nebraska Department of Economic Development with their concerns.

Currently, in order for Randolph to receive grants, such as the community Development Block Grant, it is required the community provide surveys from 250 households. These surveys were to be good for 10 years the last time they were approved for Randolph. *** RANDOLPH – The third community rummage sale is fast approaching, and preparations are being made to get ready for it.

The rummage sale which is to take place in the city auditorium Oct. 22-23, is being used as a way to help earn a few more dollars to go into the library building fund.

Plans for this community sale started three years ago, after learning of a similar fundraising idea at a church in Carroll. Peggy Letting decided to try it here. From there, the community rummage sale was born.

10 Years Ago - Oct. 15, 2014 OSMOND – Steps continue to move ahead on a proposed fiveschool merger for Bloomfield, Wausa, Creighton, Plainview and Osmond school districts.

Committees for the Five School Study met at the Osmond School on Oct. 8.

Committee members agreed a number of decisions need to be made during the next month, but deciding how to make the decisions was another matter.