Short, Fossum crowned March 14

75 Years Ago

March 18, 1948

Defeating a determined Bordulac team 34-28, the Dawson High School girls’ team won the state championship Saturday night in the final game of the 1948 state tournament played in the Carrington School gymnasium. Members of the Bordulac team are Janet Linde, Caroline Reimers, Delores Bauer, Marilyn Zink, Delores Pedersen, Patty Wolf, Theresa Wolf, Dorothy Sabinash, Virginia Wolf and Mary Jane Sabinash, with Louis V. Lund as coach.

Beverly Bort, secretary to the county agent’s office, was a flying heroine in her home community of Rosehill-Haven townships last Friday evening when she chartered a plane to spend the weekend at home for the first time in six weeks. When neighbors who had been snowbound for two or three weeks heard that Beverly was making the trip by air, they kept the telephone line to the county agent’s office busy with calls asking for delivery of mail and groceries. The postmaster made up a special package of mail.

Winning samples in the Foster County Seed Conference held in Carrington last month made a creditable showing at the Winter Show at Valley City last week. Ed Myers, Sykeston, who won first place with feed barley at the county conference, also won first place with the same sample at the Winter show. Another winner here was John Willey, with alfalfa. He took third place with the same sample at Valley City.

Henry and Art Lies had their Chester Whites in the show and sale at Valley City last week. They won third place in the state competition, repeating last year’s placing.

Attention is called by Hagen Biloff, farmer near the Hawksnest Game Refuge, to the plight of game birds and deer this winter. He declared they are starving to death or suffering from lack of feed.

50 Years Ago

March 21, 1973

A basketball game will be played Sunday, April 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the Grace City school gym by a team from the Crippled Children’s School of Jamestown and a group of adult men from Grace City. The game, to be played in wheelchairs, will be sponsored by Grace City Livestock 4-H Club with proceeds to go to the Crippled Children’s Home.

Carrington High School senior Lori Paulson has been named a winner in the 1973 “Ability Counts” writing contest sponsored by the Governor’s Council on Human Resources. Miss Paulson’s essay, dealing with the abilities and contributions of the handicapped, was awarded fourth place in the state.

Rhonda Kahl, also a CHS senior, received honorable mention in the contest.

Tom Bronaugh, Carrington High School junior, was named to the North Star All Conference basketball team. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. James Bronaugh.

Andrew R. Caylor of Carrington may be the first person in the U.S. under 21 to be raised to the Sublime Degree of Master Mason.

According to North Dakota Mason, publication of the N.D. Masonic Grand Lodge, North Dakota, led the nation in allowing those under 21 to become members of the lodge. Several lodges in the state have members under 21 receiving work in Masonry, but none have reported anyone being raised to Master Mason degree.

Carrington cattle breeder Lloyd Becker was the recipient of an appreciation award from N.D. Junior Shorthorn Association made at the Association’s meeting at the N.D. Winter Show in Valley City.

Craig Schander of Cathay has been awarded the $200 scholarship given annually by Tri-County Electric Cooperative to an outstanding junior in the School of Agriculture, N.D. State University.

25 Years Ago

March 23, 1998

Kerri Short was crowned Miss Carrington 1998 along with Sherri Fossum, Miss Central Dakota Saturday night, March 14.

Tough-T Manufacturing in Glenfield added on due to business expansion. Jerry Tufte, owner, hopes the addition will be finished and in use by May. The plant will more than double in space and add several new employees.

Renae Utke, Glenfield, joined All That Jazz, the main street hair salon owned and operated by SanDee Glaser.

Jimmy Stewart, from Carrington, was responsible for mixing the batter for the pancakes that served some 600 persons during the annual Kiwanis Pancake Day last Tuesday.

Brent Bruderer, M.D., a new surgeon, will begin his full-time practice at Carrington Health Center on April 6.

Fifty-one blue ribbons, twenty-seven red ribbons and six white ribbons were attained by the Carrington FFA at the North Dakota Winter Show last week.

Carrington Sports Booster Fun Night will be held on Thursday, March 26 at the high school. Some of the activities taking place will be the wrestlers taking on their parents and coaches in a volleyball game, and also the varsity boy’s basketball team taking on their parents and coaches. There will also be a fundraiser being held that night. Funds will go toward weight equipment, uniforms, and support of all athletic youth activities.

Area births – boy to Matthew and Tiffany Paulson, born March 12. Girl born to Mark and Chelee Finch, March 17. Boy born to Corey and LeAnn Hart, Chaseley, March 2.

Area Deaths – Lillian Scheen, 56, Bordulac; Dennis Bonderud, 50, Carrington; Edmund Brost, 84, New Rockford; Clifford Erman, 74, McHenry.

Jill Vigesaa, District Manager for the Foster County Soil Conservation District has been appointed to North Dakota Ag Classroom Council.

Joel Gussiaas, Carrington, was the winner of the outdoor cooker given away by Erickson Implement.

Over 400 guests attended the annual John Deere Day at Rosenau Equipment last Wednesday. Rosenau had drawings for Rosenau’s employee Katie Homes. Prizes were won by Norma Gussiaas, a go-cart; Luverne Albrecht, $350 service special; and Vernon Morlock, dinner for four at the Vet’s Club.