October 3, 1956
Darkness closed in on the Kaukauna diamond
Sunday afternoon before a 2-2 thirteen frame deadlock between the Klubbers and
Dutchman could be resolved in the 2nd of a three-game series between the 2
teams to have been established the 1956 winners of the Fox Valley baseball
league for the season. Per current plans game will be replayed in its entirety
next Sunday.
CHAMPIONS received their trophies
at the annual meeting of the Fox Valley club. Left to right are Tom Gustman,
Class A winner; Bernard Bongers, presidents cup winner; Idella Schwanke, Class
B; Earl Schuler, class B; Irene Gossens, women’s champion; Jerry Van Able,
Class C; John Andrejeski, champion.
Former Green Bay Packer star lineman Bernard
“Boob” Darling Tuesday evening told Kaukauna High School football players that
the days of brawny and brainless football players are things of the past.
Darling was a member of the first three Green Bay Packer championship teams and
among the founders of the current popular Green Bay quarterback club. In his
talk Darling pointed out that farm teams for professional football teams will
soon be necessary. Many of the boys who try out for the Packers don't have the
stuff when they try out but with a couple years’ experience under their belts
they would be valuable additions to the club.
A recent letter from Vince Roloff, Pres. of
Badger Northland company here, indicates he is currently traveling through
Russia and has visited Leningrad most recently on his tour of several European
countries. Roloff along with 20 other Wisconsin residents and 10 other
Minnesota left on Sunday, September 9 for the European tour.
October 5, 1956
“The city of Kaukauna
has many blessings,” stated Mr. C. J. Hansen, publisher of the Kaukauna Times
at a recent interview. “Financially our city is one of the best in the Fox
River Valley. Our greatest blessing recently acquired is our Kaukauna Community
Hospital, for which many of us are very grateful. We cannot forget our public utility which
provides us with electricity and water. Our community has the lowest electrical
rates not only in the Fox River Valley but in the entire United States. A major
part of the city's high standards and quality goes to you, the citizens in
general.”
Badger Northland has doubled its sales over
each year it has been in operation. This was stated by VP, Carl Kuehn, during a
recent interview. The manufacturing of cattle feeding equipment on several new
models of barn cleaners have added to the list of many things that they
manufacture. “Plans are now being made”, said Mr. Kuehn for a new addition to
be added to the rear of the building.”
The old saying, “The mail must go through,
could easily apply to the Kaukauna Times news carrier. Through sunshine and
rain, snow and sleet he comes trudging, faithfully bringing the morning
newspaper to be read at breakfast by the housewives, businessmen and school
children alike. The life of the news carrier is not only an interesting time
but is also of education value. He learns at early age the meaning of
responsibility and the value of money. Pete Voet, Kaukauna Times carrier,
stated the first step for a boy who is between the ages of 12 and 18 and who is
interested in obtaining a newspaper route is to place his name at Kaukauna
Times main office
The name that brought fame to the city of
Kaukauna is Kaukauna Klub Cheese, well known throughout the 48 states plus
Alaska and Hawaii and other foreign countries. Herbert Fassbender refused to
believe that even the choices cheese could not be made still better. This was
the start of the Kaukauna Dairy, around the year 1915.
Two Kaukauna youths, age 15 and 16 will be
arraigned next week at Juvenile Court, Appleton on the charge of vandalism
which took the form of slashing automobile tires on an auto belonging to Walter
Holt Division Street. Kaukauna police apprehended the pair on Tuesday evening
said that Holt’s auto was parked on a service station platform near the Rialto
Theatre, when the boys allegedly used a switchblade knife to puncture the
tires.
October 10, 1956
Henry Wilpolt retired after 51 years
with the C. & N. W. Railroad. Wilpolt came to Kaukauna with his parents
when he was a young boy. His father died when he was twelve and at thirteen, to
support his mother and four younger brothers and sisters, he started work at
the Combined Locks Pulp mill. There were two shifts 10-hour days and 14-hour
nights. The wages were 50c a day for
either shift. After five years of mill work Henry decided to work for the
railroad. He started in 1908 at 20c per hour.
Two tourist in the
Kaukauna area, Mrs. Helen Morrison, 61 of Denver, Colorado and Mrs. Esther
Rhodes, 55 of Houston, Texas were killed instantly at about noon Monday at the
intersection of Highway 10 and 55, six miles south of Kaukauna when the auto in
which they were driving struck a semi-trailer cement truck.
Highlighting the homecoming program tomorrow
evening will be homecoming Queen Joanne Faust and her attendants Marilyn Conrad
and Yvonne Van Zeeland. The parade is scheduled to get started about 7:30 PM at
the high school and continued through both sides of town in and at the athletic
field at which time Queen Joanne and her attendants will be crowned by the
captains of Friday night’s game.
Youth Center board members were elected
recently by the respective classes. Seniors chosen to serve were Bert
Baumgartner, Marlene Meyer, Kathleen Whitman, Mary Haas and Gerald Micholic.
Junior representatives are Donald Coenen, Nicholas Bachhuber, John Pomeroy and
Thalia Hodgins. Sophomore members were Jerome DeBruin, Jean Verhagen, Mary
Golden and Muriel Mongin.
October 12, 1956
Kaukauna's Freshman Ghost gridders Wednesday
evening clinched the Fox Valley freshman league football crown as they rally to
a 33-7 win over Kimberly at the Electric City bowl. Scoring 5 touchdowns and 3
extra points in the opening half, the little Ghosts led the neighbors from the
west throughout the game.
An unusually long Fox River Valley league
campaign ended last Sunday as the Little Chute Merchants defeated the Kaukauna
Klubbers 11-4 at the Dodge St., Park, thus claiming the 1956 season's
championship.
Lake trout, once the leading commercial fish
from lakes Michigan and Huron are virtually extinct in these waters because of
the invasion of the of the eel-like parasite, the sea lamprey, the Lions club
were told Tuesday at the meeting. Oliver Smith, member of a fishing company in
Port Washington said that the last lake trout to appear in the nets of their
fleet was in February 1955.
October 17, 1956
Kimberly defeated the
Kaukauna Ghosts 20-0 at the Kaukauna Homecoming game at the Electric City
bowl.
Harvey Zittow, 45, route 2 Kaukauna, died
Monday afternoon from injuries sustained when a case of dynamite exploded near
him. Per investigating officers, Zittow was driving a tractor pulling a trailer
to a timberland near his farm. The dynamite was to be used to remove some
stumps from the track and as a case was being transported to the spot it fell
from the trailer and exploded.
October 19, 1956
Two Kaukauna young men and one from Little
Chute were among inductees listed in the October 11 draft of Outagamie County.
The Kaukauna men were Carl F. Rademacher and Kenneth J. Huss. The Little Chute
youth is Thomas G. Driessen.
October 24, 1956
The Kaukauna Advancement Association at its
annual fall meeting voted to change its name to the Chamber of Commerce.
October 26, 1956
The annual meeting of Kaukauna’s mighty mites,
the Green Ghosts of Holy Cross and the Gray Ghosts of St Mary’s will take place
Sunday at 2 pm as the annual cross-town football rivalry gets underway at the
Electric City bowl.
October 31, 1956
One of the most peculiar assortments of
football fans will be on hand this evening for the final game of the season
between the Galloping Ghosts and the Shawano Indians. Among those expected to
be present will be witches, pirates, hobos, skeletons, devils, cartoon
characters and an assortment of goblins and white clad ghosts.
Kaukauna Chief of Police, Harold Engerson, this
week issued a warning concerning Halloween pranks and tricks. The Chief said
that no youngster over 10 years of age will be permitted to take part in the
trick-or-treat tradition and all activity must end by 9 pm.
1956 Desota
A completely new
exterior features modern metal paneling and shelter over the waiting area. There is
a new parking lot adjacent to the store. Larry’s asks you to stop in and see
the things we have done to make your shopping more pleasant and
attractive.
No comments:
Post a Comment