Hello Fellow Time Travelers,
Well it’s time to fire up the old “Time Machine Chair” and travel back in time to February of 1967.
For today’s trip, Carla Giordana 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.
For the music lovers, the top song on the Hit Parade this month is:
Kind of a Drag – The Buckinghams
Fred Kailhofer of the Times, 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
PS: Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.
February 1, 1967
The Kaukauna high school varsity wrestling team
topped a rough Two Rivers unit by a 26-18 margin in a match held at Kaukauna on
Thursday night. The win upped the Ghost record to 12 wins and four losses for
the year.
Anton “Casey” Jansen, former Little Chute
Village President and man about the Valley, was honored with a diamond studded
50-year membership pin by the International Machinists Association at a dinner
attended by more than 400 at Van Abel’s. “I joined the machinist in 1917 when I
was working at Fred Hoehne’s machine shop in Kaukauna,” he reminisced. Younger
men present did not remember the shop which stood along the canal bank on land
which is now Thilwerth park.
For the first time in history Kaukauna High School
has taken both ends of the season series in basketball from Kimberly by virtue
of their 76-55 victory over the Papermakers Friday night at the KHS gymnasium.
Earlier this season the Ghosts won a 73-51 decision at Kimberly.
February 3, 1967
George E. Greenwood, Sec. of the Kaukauna
Chamber of Commerce, use the words “good news” when he described a recent court
ruling that encouraged Outagamie County to proceed with the taxpayer’s suit
which attempts to block action on a proposed northeastern Wisconsin University
at the site selected in Green Bay. The suit seeks to prevent expenditures of
state money for the development of the UW-GB. The litigants contend that the
criteria were violated in that the choice was made by illegal secret
proceedings.
February 8, 1967
An unbelievable 34 straight points in the second
half carried the Kaukauna High School basketball team to an 81-54
come-from-behind victory over Two Rivers in a game played at Two Rivers Friday
night. In the third quarter rally Spice
through and three straight jumpers and a free throw, Pat Kavanaugh two drives
and a jump shot from the corner, John Van De Hey a jumper and Quinn Vanden
Heuvel a tip in and a pair of free throws.
Funeral services were held for Anton “Casey”
Jansen, former village President who died Friday after a short illness he was
82.
February 10, 1967
The winner of the DAR award for 1967 is KHS
senior Alice Weber. Each year the DAR award is presented to the senior girl
who, in the opinion of her classmates in the faculty, best characterizes the
qualities of dependability, leadership, patriotism and service through school
activities. The award consists of a certificate from the Daughters of the
American Revolution and $25 savings bond from the Kaukauna chapter of the
Professional Business Women.
The total fire loss experienced in Kaukauna for
1966 was $29,715.54, a total surpassed only three times in the past 10 years
and $13,000 less than 1965.
The Kaukauna Ghost volleyball team will open
competition tomorrow at Nathan Hale High School in West Allis. Originally 33
candidates showed up for initial practice but they had been paired to 17
members, 12 of which are allowed in uniform four games. According to coach Dave
Hash only senior Jeff School is a returning letterman. Other returnees will
also help are seniors Randy Andrews and Mike Kelly, Juniors Mel Biersteker,
Mike Grogan and Ken Kappell.
February 15, 1967
Flames still flicker
and smoke still rises from an 80-year-old railroad building near the Fox River
in the south side railroad yard, which was destroyed in a spectacular blaze
Saturday night. The structure was being used by the Combined Locks Paper Mills
of Combined Locks as a paper storage warehouse. Three boys turned in the alarm
at 4:45 p.m. which sent the complete Kaukauna fire department to the scene.
Firemen, when all hope was lost of extinguishing the fire, concentrated on
preventing the flames from spreading to nearby buildings. Damage to the
contents of the building has been estimated at up to $120,000 by Reinhold Vogt;
president of the Combined Locks Mills. Vogt said that the building had not been
entered in some time.
Old Dodge Street location
New - Larry's Piggly Wiggly supermarket is moving from its location at 215 Dodge St. this week to a new building constructed at 1900 Crooks Ave. on the south edge of the city. Opening will be Thursday. The new building, located on 3 1/2 acres of wooded land, which was known as Lehrer property, and also the site of the post-World War II Quonset hut dwellings for veterans.
Larry Verhagen - Owner
February 17, 1967
The Kaukauna Board of Education has announced
base pay change for teachers with a bachelor’s degree to be increased from
$5350 to $5550 per year in 1968.
Kaukauna wiped the snow from its windblown
whiskers this morning and said “Whew!” February snarled back with the worst
blow of the winter Wednesday. Wind up to 40 miles an hour blew snow as
temperature dropped from 28° on Wednesday to -2 today.
Three wrestlers will carry the hopes of
Kaukauna High School team in the Green Bay Preble sectional being held today
and tomorrow. This tournament will be one of eight meets leading to the
appearance and the State meet in Madison in February at the University of
Wisconsin Fieldhouse. Mike Pomeroy at 95 pounds; Sam Beach at 138 pounds; and
Dick Huss, at heavyweight will be the Ghosts entries in the tournament at
Preble.
February 22, 1967
The Kaukauna High School jayvee basketball team
clinched their third straight Mid-Eastern Conference jayvee crown Friday night
as they ground out a 60-39 victory over the Shawano jayvees. Kaukauna also pushed
their season record to 14-2 with the win.
Rita DeBruin rolling a high singles game of 244
and a national honor count of 613 paced the women league on Saturday at Ludwig
Lanes. Hillary Arnoldussen topped the men scoring with a 252 single-game and a
621 series.
February 24, 1967
Throughout the year, the Times receives many
notes from former residence, who tell us how much they enjoy keeping up on the
hometown news through their subscriptions to The Times. This week that tune was
different, an ex-Kaukauna man in California wrote, “I used to like The Times
but now it's all bowling and ads.”
To smoke or not to smoke? That was the question
before the Kaukauna City Council at their meeting Tuesday night. The issue was
brought to the floor in a board of public works report which voted 6-3 in favor
of a ban on smoking in the chambers. There were two votes at 5-5 before Mayor
Gilbert Anderson said he would consider the matter before attempting to break
the tie vote. While the discussion was in progress both sides did a bit of
lobbying for their cause. Alderman Blumreich passed out cigars which, a number
of people enjoyed and those in favor of the ban distributed literature from the
city health department pointing out the dangers of smoking.
EAGLE SCOUT awards were
presented to two young men of Holy Cross Troops 31 by their mothers at a Court
of Honor Saturday evening. Front row left to right Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Regenfuss and their son Richard. Mrs. Norbert Driessen and son Stephen and
Norbert Driessen. Back row Clayton McCabe, assistant scout master, Marvin
Hooyman scout master and Father Gerald Berken, troop chaplain.
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