Hello Fellow
Time Travelers,
It’s that time again to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and
make trip back to December 1945.
The big wheel is spinning Betty Mereness is taking her place in
the driver’s seat. The years are clicking back and in no time we are back to
Kaukauna’s south side. We are out front
of the Kaukauna Times on Main
Street
- Kaukauna
high school basketball team wins first game of season
- Christmas
shoppers crowd Kaukauna stores
- Kaukauna
pilot presumed dead in Germany
- Mayor
Nelson stepping down
The
hit parade song of the month.
https://youtu.be/cmBKHSZ1pcU
On The
Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe – Johnny Mercer
Carl Hansen, the publisher, has left the newspapers for us by
the front door of the Kaukauna Times. Let’s see what’s in the news this month.
Your
old news man – Lyle Hansen
PS: You can now receive
the Time Machine Trips on line from my Blog.
Go to “Google” and sign into at “Kaukaunatimemachine”.
You will then receive email notice of each Time Machine Trip.
December
5, 1945
The
senior class again leads the honor roll at the close of the second six weeks.
9
seniors have straight A’s
2
juniors have straight A’s
1
sophomore had Straight A’s
3
freshman have straight A’s
Donald
C. Kobs was honorably discharged at Camp McCoy, Nov. 17. The former staff
sergeant served 50 months in the Armed Forces, 37 of which were spent overseas.
He was awarded the following decorations: Asiatic Pacific theater ribbon with
two battle stars, Philippines liberation ribbon with one bronze star, American
defense ribbon, good conduct medal, victory medal, combat infantry badge
combat, expert infantry badge and the bronze arrowhead.
Robert
Kobs has been recently promoted to Seaman first-class and is stationed on a
patrol craft somewhere in the South Pacific.
Anthony
J. Wyngaard received his honorable discharge November 27 at Great Lakes
separation center.
Lieut.
James McFadden has been released from active duty from the naval service after
serving two years and four months. He participated in naval actions in the
Italian campaigns.
EM
2/c Norbert W. Kobs was honorably discharged from the Navy November 29 at the
Great Lakes separation center.
The
November report of the total amount victory bonds and stamps purchased in the
public schools of Kaukauna is as follows: high school $349.40 in stamps and
$859.35 in bonds. Park school students purchased $377.20 in bonds and stamps
and Nicolet school children invested $128.40.
Master
Sgt. Orville W. Yingling is currently serving with the 48th evacuation company
Calcutta, India and is busy engaged in the task of preparing soldiers for
immediate return to the United States. Troops arrived by plane or train from
all over India, Burma and China. The first step is to give them a hot meal and
assigned them to billets. Men receive an influenza shot and may draw partial or
full pay.
Donald
F. Reichelt, Connors gunners mate third class USNR was on the destroyer escort
USS Gendreau as she participated in the occupation of Japan. The ship is
expected to arrive in San Francisco this week.
Platoon
Sgt. Theodore Hermans has been honorably discharged from the Marines. He
enlisted July 1940.
Technician
fifth grade Albert Hermans was honorably discharged November 10 from the Army.
He entered the Army July of 1941 and left for overseas April 1944. He was
awarded the American defense ribbon, victory ribbon, American campaign medal,
good conduct medal, European African-Middle-Eastern theater ribbon with one
Silver Star and one bronze arrowhead, combat infantry badge and glider badge.
Platoon
Sgt. Theodore Hermans has been honorably discharged from the Marines. He
enlisted July 1940.
Coach
Guy Krumm's Kaukauna high school cagers made it five wins in a row over
non-league opponents. At Appleton high school Friday night, they won by a score
of 25 to 23. It was Chuck Kalista and
Ken Dexheimer who paced the Kaws in their fifth straight win.
December
7, 1945
Brothers Inducted 3
years ago discharged the Same Day
First
Sgt. Mark A. Nagan is back at his job at Haas Hardware after serving three
years in the Army in which he served 27 months in the European area. Nagan went
overseas with the original 101st Airborne Division and was later transferred to
the 82nd division which he served in over two years. Nagan was discharged
November 19 at Camp McCoy. His decorations include the European theater ribbon
with four battle stars, the bronze arrowhead, the combat infantry badge, glider
wings with two combat mission stars, victory ribbon, American theater ribbon,
good conduct medal, Army of occupation ribbon and three awards from foreign
governments of France, Holland, and Belgium.
Technical
Sgt. Eugene Nagan was honorably discharged November 19 at camp McCoy and
returned to his former work at Kaukauna machine Corporation. He entered the
Army December 1942 and served overseas from October 1944 to September 1945. He
was assigned to the 14th armored division and later with the 45th infantry
division. He wears the European theater ribbon with two battle stars, the good
conduct medal, American defense ribbon and a victory ribbon.
Private
Claude S. Smith is on his way home aboard the USS Kallian Bay, one of more than
250 cruisers, battleships and carriers of the Navy's famous “magic carpet
fleet”. The ships left Pearl Harbor November 27 for San Diego, Calif.
Fire
Chief Henry Esler appeared before the common Council Tuesday with a request
that two additional firemen be added to his present crew giving him one
additional man for each shift.
Lt.
Col. Ray Dohr was guest speaker at the Kaukauna Rotary Club Wednesday meeting
at the Ritz Club. “The United States is now the leader nation of the world. It
must be kept powerful so that it can lead this world in a lasting peace.” Dohr
was in service five years and has now returned to Appleton to his law practice.
The regular Army, which offers travel, adventure,
vocational training and security, now is open to enlistment ages 18 to 34 years
of age. Enlistees can choose their branch of service as well as the theater in
which they prefer duty.
December
12, 1945
Tech.
fifth grade Paul Kersten received an honorable discharge from the Army after
serving three years. He served in Europe in the 168th combat
engineer battalion. He was awarded American medal, good conduct badge, European-African-Mid-eastern
theater ribbon with a Silver Star.
BM
2/c Oliver Wheaton received an honorable discharge from the United States Navy.
Howard
J. Patterson was honorably discharged after serving 3 years in the Air Corps
M2/c
Stanley a. Kramer was honorably discharged from the Navy.
CCM
Edward Renn was honorably discharged from the Navy.
CMM
Richard S. Coenen received an honorable discharge from the Navy.
Clyde
J. Smith received an honorable discharge from the Army.
Staff
Sgt. James M. Strick received his honorable discharge from the Army.
T/4 Donald McCormick received an honorable
discharge from the Army.
Private Francis Alears was honorably
discharged from the Army.
Sgt.
John J. Flanagan returned home Sunday after serving three years in the Army as
a surgical technician. He has been awarded the victory medal, American theater
ribbon, and European African Middle Eastern theater ribbon with four bronze
stars, good conduct medal and the meritorious unit award.
Seaman
second class Francis Yingling is spending a nine-day leave with his parents
after completing boot camp at Great Lakes. Yingling graduated from Kaukauna
high school last June.
Leo
J. Merlo was re-elected chairman of the Eastern district of the Valley Council
Boy Scouts of America. The East district is composed of Boy Scouts from
Kaukauna, Little Chute, Kimberly and Brillion.
First
Lieut. C. J. Casper return to his base in Topeka Kansas after spending 10 days
here with his family.
Glenn
Lappen, Main Avenue, enlisted in the Navy and arrived in San Diego California
December 1. Lappen graduated with the class of 1945.
With
Lehman dropping in 18 points, Coach Guy Krumm's Kaukauna high school basketball
opened its northeastern Wisconsin conference schedule with a 35 the 26 win over
Clintonville last Friday. It was the six straight win for Kaukauna.
December
14, 1945
Three
Kaukauna youths escape serious injury Wednesday when their car crashed into a parked
auto on County Trunk V near Kimberly and tumbled down an embankment. In the car
were Richard Kiffe, Len Rohan and Roy Lindstrom.
Seaman
first-class Carl Nieuwenhuis and his wife arrived Saturday and is spending a
30-day leave with his parents on Klein Street. He enlisted in the Navy August
1943 and served 18 months in the South Pacific. He now wears the American
campaign ribbon, victory ribbon and the Asian Pacific ribbon with two battle
stars.
Maj.
John A. Sullivan, fighter pilot and squadron commander of the eighth air force
in England, is now presumed dead by the war Department having been missing in
action for a year, according to word received by his family. Memorial mass will
be held this morning at 9 o'clock at holy Cross Catholic Church. On December 5,
1944, Major Sullivan was forced down over the North Sea on a return trip from a
mission to Berlin Germany. He entered service December 1940 and was assigned as
a fighter pilot on a P38.
December
19, 1945
Pfc.
Peter Schneider received an honorable discharge from the Army after serving 27
months in the European theater of operations. He served with the 101st Airborne
Division which was the first group into Hitler’s stronghold. He took part in
capturing Goering’s special train with his stolen loot of famous paintings,
gold and silver. The paintings were put on exhibition and he was one of the
soldiers who guarded the loot. He was awarded the EOT ribbon with four battle
stars, the bronze arrowhead, the good conduct medal, the bronze star, the
combat infantry badge, presidential unit citation, victory medal and glider
wings.
Petty
Officer third class Donald R Yingling, Desnoyer Street, was honorably
discharged from the Navy. He served 3 1/2 years in the Navy. His decorations
include the European African Middle Eastern theater ribbon with one bronze
star, the American theater ribbon, good conduct ribbon and a victory ribbon.
Lieut.
Robert U. Hagman was honorably discharged from the Navy.
Lowell
W. Garvey was honorably discharged from the Army.
GM
3/c Jerome J. Truyman received an honorable discharge from the Navy.
Herman
Arndt, 57, lower Cliff, was burnt to death about 8 o'clock Monday morning when
he apparently fell into the lime kiln pit at High Cliff. An inquest into the
death will be held Monday in Calumet County. Arndt was working on the top of
the kiln running a cart which dumps limestone into the kiln. He had been
employed at the kiln since he was 14 years old.
It
was a pair of high-scoring guards that lead Kaukauna high school to its seven
Straight cage wins of the season here Friday night over the New London Bulldogs
by a score of 50 to 37. Dexheimer and Haas scored 28 points between them.
December
21, 1945
The
ownership of Nagan’s store has passed out of the Nagan family with Harry Leeman
of Michigan as the new proprietor. It was nearly 55 years ago when the Nagan
family moved to Kaukauna from Port Washington. The first Nagan store was open
in what is now Haas hardware appliance showroom. In 1894 a new building was
erected on the site of the present store. Four years later it was completely
destroyed by fire and in 1898 the present building was erected.
All
city employees, except the Mayor and the members of the Council will receive
pay raises, the Council decided at its Tuesday evening meeting. The Council
voted to give the city Treas. a salary of $1200 per year, instead of his former
$880 salary. This is the largest increase approved.
Shoppers
have crowded Kaukauna stores in unprecedented numbers this week and it is
expected that the demand for merchandise that will make suitable Christmas
gifts will continue to increase on the remaining three shopping days. Because
of the extreme cold weather conditions, the installing of Christmas lighting
system in the city has not been completed.
Santa
is coming to Kaukauna Saturday afternoon to visit with 2000 kiddies who are expected
to pack the civic auditorium. Anton Berkers will be the master of ceremonies.
December
24, 1945
Don
Kuehl’s free throw with about 15 seconds to play in overtime period gave
Kaukauna high school a 30 to 29 win over Shawano high school and undisputed
possession of first place. Kaukauna is the only undefeated team in the Western
division of northern Wisconsin. It was
the eighth straight win for Coach Guy Krumm’s outfit.
First
Sgt. Francis J. Landreman received an honorable discharge at Camp McCoy. He had
entered service in April 1942 and spent seven months in Panama assigned to the
2010th maintenance company before being assigned to the South Pacific.
Landreman was awarded the good conduct medal, American theater ribbon, Asiatic
Pacific ribbon with two battle stars and the Philippine liberation ribbon.
Three
Kaukauna men receive honorable discharges from the Navy:
Boatswain
mate second class Gordon L. Hennes.
Seaman
first-class Mark M. Nichols
Lieut.
Robert R. Helf
Two
brothers are discharged and a third is in the Philippines. Earl Ludtke, who is
serving in the Philippines, was recently promoted from Seaman first-class the
gunners mate third class. He has been
overseas about two years.
Pfc.
Otto Ludtke was honorably discharged from the Army after serving three years
and nine months in the European theater.
Staff
Sgt. Lester Ludtke was honorably discharged last month. He was in service for
three years seven months and served in the European theater of operations.
Holy
Cross scored a 49 to 27 win over St. Mary's Saturday to take over first place
in the grade school league. Pat Lehman and Richard Giordana led Holy Cross in
its third straight victory.
December 28, 1945
Sgt.
Karl Kobussen a veteran of 28 months in service in the Pacific theater is
returning to United States as the units are being demobilized.
Seaman
first-class Lawrence McMahon arrived home to spend a 36-day leave with his
father on Kenneth Avenue. He had entered service in November 1942 and was
stationed in the North Atlantic.
Including among his decorations are the American theater ribbon, Asiatic
Pacific ribbon, European theater ribbon, Philippine liberation ribbon and the
victory medal.
Master
Sgt. Lewis Vanevenhoven received an honorable discharge at camp McCoy after serving
in the Army for 4 1/2 years 14 months being in the South Pacific.
Staff
Sgt. Donald J. Promer and his wife Sgt. Marjorie E Promer both received
honorable discharges from the Army recently. Donald had been in service for
three years and 10 months. He wears the European Middle Eastern theater ribbon
with three battle stars and the combat infantry badge. Sgt. Marjorie Promer was
a basic training instructor at the first Wac Training Ctr., Fort Des
Moines.
Mayor L. F. Nelson, who has served the city as mayor
for seven years announced Wednesday at the special council meeting he would not
be a candidate for re-election in April. Mayor Nelson stated he believed he had
served enough and his present capacity and was time for a younger man to take
over the responsibility.
Papyrus - 1945
Seaman
MM 2/c Kenneth Balgie returned to the states from the Philippines and was
discharged on December 21 after spending 26 months 13 of which were overseas.
Seaman Balgie played in an orchestra and took part in stage shows to entertain
servicemen. He was awarded the Philippine campaign ribbon with one star, the
Asian-Pacific ribbon with one star, the American defense ribbon and the victory
medal.
MOMM
2/c Roland Grode received an honorable discharge from the Navy.
Sgt.
Norbert M. Jansen, Little Chute, was honorably discharged after having served
three years in the Army. He was stationed in the European theater of operations
for the past 16 months. He was awarded the EOT with four battle stars, the good
conduct medal, American theater ribbon and the victory medal.
Master
Sgt. Lewis Vanevenhoven received an honorable discharge at camp McCoy at the
serving in the Army for 4 1/2 years 14 months being in the South Pacific.
W.
Arthur Tennessen was honorably discharged at Fort Sheridan after serving three
years, seven months in the Army. He was awarded the victory medal, American
theater ribbon, and the European African Middle Eastern ribbon with three
battle stars, the good conduct ribbon and the meritorious unit award.
No comments:
Post a Comment