Hello Fellow Time Travelers,
It’s that time again to fire up
the old “Time Machine Chair” and make a trip back in time.
Today Bonnie Golden is sitting in the driver’s seat. The big wheel is
spinning and the years are clicking back. In no time, we are back to Kaukauna’s
south side. We are out front of the
Kaukauna Times on the corner of Third Street and Main. We are now in January of 1957.
For the music lovers, the top
song on the Hit Parade this month is:
Singing the Blues – Guy Mitchell
https://youtu.be/wJA8b3esxfE
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
January 4, 1957
KIRK RICHARD BRANDT pictured above snuggling in his mother’s arms
was Kaukauna first baby of the New Year, born at the Kaukauna Community
Hospital at 12:40 am Tuesday morning. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Brandt Kaukauna.
Judy Faye, better known to Kaukaunans as Judy
Faye Schermitzler, a talented songstress, has signed a three-year recording
contract with a Phoenix Arizona company.
Judy is the daughter of Joe “Camel” Schermitzler who operated the Camel
Club in Kaukauna on Highway 96 in recent years. The family moved to Arizona
last summer. The 17-year-old singer occasionally entertained at her father's
club while living in the Kaukauna area.
The Kaukauna Ice Carnival was held Sunday
afternoon. The opening event of the afternoon was 100-yard dash race for
midgets. (Youngsters 8 to 10 years of age). In the girls’ competition Shirley
Ann Schumann placed first, Susan Whitaker was second and Patty Landreman placed
third. For the boys, Jim Rademacher was first, Neil Faust was second and Dick
Ball came in third. The 11 to 12-year-old winners of the dash were for the
girls Joan Ludvigsen was first, Janet Reuter came in second and Paula Koch
finished third. For the boys in the same age group Jerry Spaulding was first,
Jim Koepke came in second and Thurston Lambie was the third-place winner. For
the 13 and 14-year-olds girls Marie Jakl finished first, Kathy Eslein came in
second and Sharon Lennert took third. In the boy’s competition Neil Lucht was
first, Ed Keberlein was second and Dave Barribeau finished third.
January 9, 1957
Four Green Bay Packer players were selected to
play in the annual pro bowl in Los Angeles. They were end Bill Howton,
defensive back, Bobby Dillon, linebacker, Roger Zatkoff and quarterback Tobin
Rote.
KAUKAUNA YOUNG PEOPLE
took full advantage of the city’s skating rinks during the Christmas vacation
time. The Park and Tenth street rinks were duplicated over the two-week span.
The new recreation areas are well set up with a flood light for night skating along
with shelter houses.
January 11, 1957
A Kaukauna man in Moscow finds the Russian
capital a somber cheerless and cold city, lacking in human comforts, while the
sky overhead laced with the vapor trails of jet planes, displays the greatest
military strength of the Soviet Union. Vince Roloff, Pres. of Badger Northland
Inc., spent two weeks behind the recently lifted Iron Curtain last fall, has
told this story at several service clubs recently. My visa number was 1160, so
I was one of the first thousand or so tourist to visit Russia since 1917 when
the country was closed to foreigners.
George Kailhofer led the beginners bowling with
a high game of 152 Saturday at for Verbeten’s alleys in the league sponsored by
the Kaukauna Recreation Department.
January 18, 1957
OSCAR JAHNS, retired Kaukauna police sergeant, is pictured
above as he completed his final week with the force. Jahns served on the force
about 22 years. He lost an eye a few years ago, in an accident and gave that
disability as his reason for retirement.
City Health Officer, Dr. George Behnke,
reminded residence of Kaukauna that the three winter months are the ideal time
to have anti-polio vaccinations administered.
The cold wave which has Kaukauna shivering for
almost 2 weeks has caused more discomfort and inconvenience and physical damage
to the city. Despite the cold the fact that 11 out of 15 days have featured
temperatures ranging below zero. The construction project was halted on the
Lawe Street Bridge where the lift portion of the span is being replaced by a
steel gridding. Much of the work requires welding which cannot be done below a
temperature of 15°.
Ramblings by Mrs. Ed
Wolf.
In a farm home, many years ago the mother of
three little girls was expecting visitors from out west whom she had never met.
She was very proud of her little girls and wanted to show them off. She dressed
them in their Sunday best and brush their hair to a shined. Having time to
spare she sent children outside to play but ordered them to stay neat and
clean. The three wandered to the barn and finding a box of rags tried them on.
When the out-of-town guest arrived, their mother called, it her best company
voice “Come in girls and meet your cousins.” They never found out what their cousins, who were much older. thought of
them, but they heard plenty from their horrified mother after their company
left.
January 23, 1957
Broadcaster editors for the first nine weeks’
shift were recently chosen by the senior editors. Miss Francis Corry, advisor,
made the final selection a case of ties. Students chosen were Thalia Hodgins,
Mary Coppes and Doris DeBruin. The retiring senior editors are Robert
Greenwood, Daniel Brenzel and Mary Joe Krueger.
January 25, 1957
Celebrating its 50th anniversary this Sunday is
Holy Name Catholic Church, Kimberly and in honor of the occasion a special
schedule of events have been planned. An anniversary solemn high mass with
benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and a sermon by the most Rev. Stanislaus
V. Bona, bishop of the Green Bay diocese. All former pastors have been extended
invitations.
January 30, 1957
The Kaukauna Galloping Ghosts, Friday night,
dropped with a thud into the Mid-Eastern conference cellar along with the
Clintonville Truckers after losing to Clintonville 81–79 at Clintonville.
THE STUDENTS OF THE
THIRD GRADE at Park school recently completed a study on Spain. The youngsters
constructed their own guitars. Pictured left to right in the back are Barbara
Mueller, Charles Jacobson, Gary Riemer, Billy Sloggy, Mary May and Mary
Jirikowic. In the front row are Ray Hardtke, Lynn Hurst, Dennis Dakins, John
Mooney, Patti Gilson and Jim Rice.
1957 Mercury
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