Hello Fellow Time
Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up
the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to February of 1966.
For today’s trip Bob Keough will be sitting in the front seat operating the Time
Machine. Now the big wheel is spinning, the years are clicking back and in no
time we are back on the corner of Third Street and Main Avenue .
·
Wrestlers finish undefeated season
·
City is waiting for UW placement decision
·
Thilmany reports record
sales year for 1965
For the music lovers the
top song on the Hit Parade this month is:
“Cherish” – Association
https://youtu.be/9hysdyVGpsE
The Times employee “Lyle
Hansen”, left the newspapers for us by the front door.
Well let’s get the copies and
see what is in the paper this month.
Your old news man – Lyle
February 2, 1966
The
Kaukauna Jayvee wrestling team finished their second consecutive undefeated
season with a 12 win and no loss record for 1965–66 and a 24 win and no loss
record since the start of wrestling in 1964. In this span the team has racked
up 208 victories, 67 losses and eight ties.
Carol
and Donna Wurdinger took the Mother-Daughter high series honors at the
Recreation Department Tournament held Saturday at the Bowling Bar.
The
death of Peter Schuh Friday at the age of 80 marked the end of a generation,
“the last of the rugged individuals”, as one person commented at the funeral
home. A bachelor, he lived alone in the home of his boyhood on Taylor Street
where he worked as a carpenter. His home had no electricity, no city water, no
telephone. He had no insurance, no social security, no bank account, no
accumulated money. Each year he borrowed the money from a niece for his taxes
any paid off as he did carpenter work throughout the year.
The
ice jam at the railroad bridge serving Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company began to
build up again Tuesday. The combination of cold weather and high water caused
the jam at the railroad bridge.
February 4, 1966
Aldermen
questioned authority of Kaukauna fire and police commission at Tuesday night's
council meeting because of the newspaper advertising seeking men to serve as
volunteer firemen.
Airman
John M. Reinke, Kaukauna, has been selected for technical training at Chanute
Air Force Base, Illinois as an aircraft maintenance specialist. Airman Reinke
is a 1964 graduate of Kaukauna high school.
February 9, 1966
Sarah
Berens, 20, Desnoyer Street, has been elected Queen of the seventh annual water
Carnival at Wisconsin State University Oshkosh.
William
Schiefelbein, Jr., and his father took the honors in the Kaukauna Recreation
Department’s Annual Father-Son Bowling Tournament Saturday at the Bowling Bar.
The dual combined for the day's top series, a 786 score.
The
ordeal of waiting for a decision now plagues Kaukauna and the city members of
the education committee, after the site selection group visited proposed sites
for the northeastern Wisconsin University Tuesday.
February 11, 1966
Thilmany
Pulp and Paper Company reported record net sales in 1965 of $44,187,705 at the
firm's annual stockholders meeting Thursday. This represents a gain of 10% over
1964.
February 16, 1966
The
Kaukauna public protection and safety committee authorized the fire and police
commission to advertise for two full-time firemen and disregard entirely of
volunteer firemen for which the commission had been advertising.
Thilmany
Pulp and Paper Company reported record net sales in 1965 of $44,187,705 at the
firm's annual stockholders meeting Thursday. This represents a gain of 10% over
1964.
Pfc.
Thomas Joosten, 21, Kaukauna, is participating in a four-week exercise in
Grafenwehr, Germany. Joosten maintains switchboard communications and the 23rd
armored. He is a 1963 graduate of Kaukauna High School.
Marine
Lance Cpl. Dennis P. Kroes, Kaukauna, is
expected to arrive at Great Lakes naval hospital this week. He was wounded in
Vietnam Saturday, February 12 on a patrol near Chu Lai. He is listed in good
condition and seems to be in good spirits his mother told the Kaukauna
Times. Kroes is a 1962 graduate of
Kaukauna High School and joined the Marines in July that year.
Guy
M. McCorison, whose retirement as chairman of the board of Thilmany Pulp and
Paper Company was announced last week, was honored Thursday for his service to
Kaukauna and to his company. Mayor Joseph Bayorgeon, in the name of the people
of Kaukauna, presented him with a plaque citing his work in community
projects.
February 18, 1966
Army
Pfc. George L Gerrits, Kaukauna, took part in Flying Tackle II, a training
exercise conducted in Korea. The 21-year-old soldier is assigned as a truck
driver the 12th artillery. Gerrits is a 1962 graduate of Kaukauna High School.
Kaukauna
experienced a total fire loss in 1965 of $42,954 a total surpassed only twice
since 1954. Last year there were 136 fire runs.
February 25, 1966
The
wrestling squad of Kaukauna high school finished their season over the weekend.
Head coach Don Jensen, in his second year at the helm, used 29 wrestlers to
fill the 12 slots necessary. In the two years Kaukauna had wrestling, they had
12 wins, nine losses and two tie records in dual meets finishing fifth in the
conference. Wrestlers finishing either first or second in each weight division
will be eligible to compete in the state meet in February. McCabe, 112-pound
grappler currently is sporting a 14 win, four losses and one tie. Parker
wrestles at 180 pounds and has recorded 10 wins, six losses and two ties.
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