Time Machine Trip to February 1948

February 4, 1948

A burning automobile was a call for the fire department Friday morning. Robert Courtney, Blackwell street, driver of the car told the fireman that the car caught on fire from a backfire. The automobile is owned by his sister, Miss Margaret Courtney.

Capt. Frank Grogan, Kaukauna, left last week for Seattle, Wash., where he will embark for Tokyo, Japan.

The judgment of foreclosure on the Electric City Brewing company was approved by Judge Schmiege. The figures disclosed was $24,438.50.

Victor Haen, Jr. and James Wolf were inducted as bobcats at the monthly meeting of Cub Pack 27 held Thursday night at St. Mary’s church hall.

      

 

      Cliff Hinkens                              Don Lemke

Kaukauna high school basketball team scored their fifth victory in the N.E.W. Conference Friday night. The Ghosts beat the jinx of never having beat Neenah twice in one season defeating Neenah 39-38 before a small crowd at the KHS gymnasium. The speedster Cliff Hinkens gave a good accounting by scoring 19 points. Don Lemke Kaws’ hustling forward must not go unheralded for his sparking play against the Rockets.   

February 6, 1948

Sergeant Robert Pankratz, in charge of recruiting in Kaukauna, announced today that two Kaukauna men enlisted for three years. Pvt. Robert L. Stutzman, Corps of Engineers and Pvt. Myron J. Arnoldussen, Airborne.     

February 11, 1948

Norbert Henry Jackels, Kaukauna, enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps Reserve according to a release from the Marine Corps recruiting office at Green Bay. He is assigned to the Ninth Marine Corps reserve headquarters in Chicago Ill.

Theodore M. Hermans, High Street, Kaukauna, has re-enlisted in the U. S. Marine Corps for a period of three years. Hermans is a six-year veteran serving as a platoon sergeant with the Second Marine Division in the Pacific theater. 

February 13, 1948

Dale E. Andrews was elected president of the Kaukauna Advancement association replacing the retiring Carl R. Runte.

Remember when a couple dollars in your pocket made you feel like a third cousin to John D. Rockerfeller? Those days are gone forever. One south side grocer contends that since 1942 the dollar has lost 50 per cent of its value. Any business that has not increased by 50 per cent in the last five years is running behind schedule.

Yesterday was the 139^th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. Kaukauna has no surviving members of the Grand Army of the Republic, but we do have a local resident who lived during the last eight years of Lincoln’s life – H. S. Cooke, who will celebrate his 92^nd birthday in June of this year. In an interview, Mr. Cooke stated he did not recall the death of Lincoln. He did however remember that a great tragedy had occurred in the nation at that time.

Coach Fred Barribeau of the Kaukauna boxing team greeted 43 candidates Wednesday in the high school gymnasium as the squad prepared to launch training for another successful season. Barribeau said this year’s turnout was less than the prospects reporting this time last year when 60 young men were out to seek ring honors.

February 18, 1948

Although the championship was securely in their grasp, Holy Cross parochial school displayed little mercy toward Trinity Lutheran Saturday morning pounding out a 48-11 triumph. Richard Giordana of Holy Cross was again high point man dropping in 10 points. Jahns led the feeble offensive at Trinity with four points. Giordana carved himself a niche in Kaukauna sports being the runaway individual scorer in grade school basketball with 117 points.

T. H. Boebel, superintendent of schools will be chairman of the 1948 Red Cross drive which will be conducted here March 1 to 31. The goal of $2,400 has been set a sum equal to that raised in 1947. 

February 20, 1948

If rabbits have been eating your garden in spring, the Rod and Gun club may have a solution for your problem. The club plans to conduct a rabbit catching contest. Members will build rabbit traps next summer and will attempt to get citywide interest to catch rabbits. The rabbits will be released in the country where they can grow fat for hunters next fall.

February 25, 1948

Pfc. Betty J. Hawley, stationed with the WAC Detachment at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas is now the filing clerk at Post Headquarters. Hawley reenlisted in June 1947 after serving three years in the military. 

February 27, 1948

The new base rate wage for women at Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company is now 98c per hour an increase of three cents an hour. The base rate for men is $1.11 per hour. This pay wage increase applies to about 1,100 hourly paid employees.