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75 Years Ago - Feb. 23, 1950
RANDOLPH – The People’s party and the Citizens party will each hold caucuses to name candidates for city and school board offices on Wednesday night, March 1.
Candidates for mayor of the city of Randolph, city clerk, city treasurer, police magistrate, and for councilmen of the first and second wards, as well as two members of the board of education will be named by each party.
The People’s party will hold their caucus in the north room of the main floor of the auditorium, and the committee to call this caucus for 1950 is Wm. Eike, V.C. Havorka, Sr., and F.S. Stegge. The Citizens party will hold their caucus in the council room at the auditorium, and the committee to call caucus for the party in 1950 is A.B. Helms, Joe Sellon and Phil Eberhardt. *** RANDOLPH – Mrs. E.H. Benson, county chairman, presided at the first county home extension council meeting of the year held recently. Three major goals were set up and adopted by the group. They included organizing a community sing fest in each community in the county, cooperating with all county organizations in promoting a better county health program, and to encourage reading programs in each of the clubs.
The council went on record to cooperate with other county organizations in the planning and publicity of the county health institute to be held in Hartington on March 20. Mrs. Fred Pflanz of Belden was appointed to act on the publicity committee for the event.
The council voted to have a county legislative chairman appointed who would bring to the council information on legislative bills of particular interest to the homemaker.
60 Years Ago - Feb. 18, 1965
RANDOLPH – Seaman Apprentice Neal M. Lackas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin M. Lackas, participated in the retaliatory strike operations February 7, against North Vietnam while serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Hancock, operating with the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the South China Sea.
Navy aircraft took off from the aircraft carriers USS Ranger, Coral Sea and Hancock. Of the carrier aircraft, 49 attacked Communist barracks and staging areas near Dong How about 100 miles north of the boarder between South and North Vietam.
Pilots reported seeing heavy fires and smoke and substantial damage to military targets in the area. *** RANDOLPH – Randolph residents are in a unique situation in these days of higher costs and more spending . . . Their personal and property taxes are lower this year than last year. While this difference is not great, nonetheless it is still lower.
The total mill levy this year is 81.26 mills, as compared to 82.52 a year ago, or a drop of 1.26 mills.
The general school levy for School District 45 dropped under 20 mills this year to 19.85, compared to 20.49 last year. The school bond levy of 9.00 mills to pay for the new school building is the same as last year.
50 Years Ago - Feb. 20, 1975
RANDOLPH – Mary Ann Gubbels, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Gubbels, will receive a fulltuition scholarship to attend Wayne State College. The Board of Trustees Scholarships are four-year scholarships awarded on the basis of high school academic achievement. *** RANDOLPH – The Randolph Board of Education by unanimous vote, voted to re-elected the three principals of the Randolph School system.
The board in session February 10th re-elected Jack Rohrberg, high school; James Rasmussen, junior high and Shirley Nissen, elementary.
The salaries for the principals will be set at a later date.
40 Years Ago - Feb. 21, 1985
RANDOLPH – Randolph Century Days of ’86 will be the theme of the Randolph Centennial in the summer of 1986 following action by the executive committee of the organizing group on Monday evening.
The winning entry was submitted
by Wayne Wattier and he will receive a $100 savings bond for his effort.
Along with picking the winning theme, the committee also announced that they will be accepting entries immediately for a logo that will also be used in conjunction with the centennial in 1986.
30 Years Ago - Feb. 22, 1995
MCLEAN – An early morning blaze Saturday destroyed the home of Jim Backhaus in McLean. The alarm was called in to the McLean Fire Department at 3:30 a.m., the Osmond Fire Department received notification at 3:30 a.m.
Osmond Fire Chief Burton Bargmann said the entire house was involved in the fire when the department arrived and flames were burning through the roof. The house was destroyed along with its contents. Bargmann reported that State Fire Marshal Curly McDonald of Wayne determined the fire was caused by a woodburning stove and a chimney fire that ignited the structure in the attic. The fire marshal theorized that the fire had been burning in the attic for at least a couple of hours before it was discovered.
The Randolph Fire Department was called for assistance, Bargmann said, and the main problem was the insufficient water supply from the village system to fight a large fire. He said three tankers from Osmond, one from McLean and two from Randolph were used to haul water from the respective communities to fight the fire. *** HARTINGTON – A heated discussion Tuesday about the 911 system prompted Cedar County commissioners to call for a special public meeting next month. At Tuesday’s meeting, Commissioner Gus Pick recommended that a general information hearing be held for the public regarding the countywide enhanced 911 (E-911) emergency system. The hearing was set for March 14. Pick said the public deserved the hearing to voice opinions and learn more about the countywide enhanced 911 system.
The discussion ensued after county board chairman Marlen Kraemer said a new contract for the 911 system needs to be drawn up by the county attorney since the old contract is obsolete. The former contract, signed in 1986, is between the City of Hartington and the county. Pick said he is concerned with the high turnover of dispatchers at the sheriff’s office. Pick also said he had heard public concern regarding how the dispatching would operate with the countryside system.
Last week, the 911 committee toured three other facilities - in Yankton, South Sioux City and Norfolk - studying costs of equipment, databases and routing of calls at these places. County Clerk Dave Dowling said all three facilities are the same, yet all different. The committee looked at how many dispatchers are needed for the different 911 centers. The E911 committee will meet Wednesday with the Hartington Telephone Company to discuss electronic equipment.
20 Years Ago - Feb. 23, 2005
RANDOLPH – Norman Rockwell and his wife, Alyce, are opening a new business here in Randolph and though customers won’t be able to find any expensive paintings there it will be a hobbyists dream come true.
Norm’s Train World/Freightside Model Specialities, located on Highway 20 across the street and to the east of Berner’s Service in the old mini mart business, is now open on temporary hours. Around the first of March more permanent hours will be set. Currently, they are trying to finish up some last minute work to the building and business.
The business is separated into two parts, Norm’s Train World on one side of the building and Freightside Model Specialties on the other. *** RANDOLPH – Though the stork lives by his own timetable he finally came through, as on Feb. 21, 2005, Randolph was able to welcome into the community their New Year’s baby.
Andrew James Hausmann, the latest addition to the Tim and Carrie (Koenig) Hausmann family of rural Randolph arrived via C-section at Faith Regional Health Services at 1:57 p.m., on Monday, Feb. 21. He weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces and was 20 inches long.
Andrew is welcomed into the world by three siblings, sisters Erin, 12, and Dusti, 7, and brother, Alex, 11. *** RANDOLPH – For the Bill Gubbels family, Randolph, the road to Lincoln for the annual state wrestling tournament is quickly becoming the road well traveled. In total, one member or another has qualified to wrestle at state seven times.
Not only is the road to and from Lincoln familiar territory, but the medal cabinet in their home is filling up quickly. On four of those seven return trips home, there’s been a state champion seated in the car. It all started for this family in 1977, when farther, Bill, then a senior in high school, qualified to represent Class C Randolph in Lincoln, wrestling at 138 lbs. He returned home a state champion.
10 Years Ago - Feb. 25, 2015
RANDOLPH – Dylan Loberg set a pretty big list of goals for this year’s wrestling season.
The Randolph senior capped his high school wrestling career here Saturday by checking off the final few spots on that lengthy list.
Earn a state championship check.
Complete an undefeated season check.
Set a good example for future Randolph High School wrestlers check. *** WAYNE – Wayne Area Economic Development, Wayne State College, Nebraska Extension and Nebraska Business Development Center will host a Disaster Preparedness Summit March 11, at Gardner Hall on the Wayne State College campus.
This is a must-attend event for community leaders and the general public as severe weather season approaches.
At this educational event, topics to be covered include disaster basics, communicating through disasters, using technology and mobile apps during times of crisis, business resources available, long-term recovery team efforts, and volunteer experiences following a disaster. A resource fair will be open throughout the day, with exhibitors sharing resources available. *** LINCOLN – Sen. Al Davis is concerned about rural Nebraska.
The state senator from Hyannis introduced two bills in front of the Legislature’s Education Committee Tuesday that would have a direct impact on small communities in the state.
LB595 would create a task force to examine issues of school construction including infrastructure needs and how to provide funding.
The bill would reduce pressure on local taxpayers and give guidance to smaller communities that don’t have expertise, according to Davis.
