Time Machine Trip to March 1968

March 1, 1968

Dennis Spice, senior forward for the Kaukauna high school varsity team, was named to the 1967-68 all conference Mid-Eastern first team yesterday. Spice was one of two unanimous selections to receive first place honors. Two other Ghosts received honors Dick Carstens was named to the second team all-conference and senior Ron Vock was an honorable mention selection.

Don Andrews was the leading scorer on the Kaukauna junior varsity cage team under coach Harold Kobin this season. Don scored 191 points in 18 games. Most improved player award went to Grant Grebe while Steve Dreier received the best defensive player honors.

March 6, 1968

Record kilowatt hour sales highlighted the report of 1967 of the Kaukauna Electric Utility, according to figures released by Norbert Rhinerson, utility manager. The utility had record sales of $992,766.29. This is an increase of 87.5 percent over the past ten years. The utility also reported that in 1967 they paid out $86,189.47 in property taxes and donated $50,000 to the city in 1967.

March 8, 1968

The Kaukauna common council this week authorized the interconnecting power hook-up between Kaukauna, Menasha and the Wisconsin Michigan Power Company. Under the plan, Menasha would sell surplus power to Kaukauna to postpone major investments in new equipment.

Al Borchardt and Tom Giordana were elected co-captain of the 1967-68 championship freshmen basketball team and Borchardt was named most valuable player and best team player. Giordana shared honors with the highest field goal and free throw accuracy percentages. Leon Franzke was named the top defensive player for the year and leading in scoring and rebounding for the team.

March 13, 1968

The Rev. Msgr. Aloysius J. Wycislo, auxiliary bishop of Chicago, was named recently by Pope Paul VI as eighth bishop of the 100-year-old Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. The 59-year-old Chicagoan will succeed the late Bishop Stanislaus V. Bona to the post.

Charles E. Heindel, of Kaukauna, writes from Vietnam where he is serving with a river assault group in the Mekong Delta. Charles twin brother Richard is currently recuperating at Great Lakes Naval Base from a wound received in combat. His older brother Peter has been in the Navy for the past eight years. Charles says the assault boat is fifty feet long, lightly armored and travels at terrific speeds.

March 15, 1968

Lance Cpl. James Allen Corey, 20, Kimberly died in the U. S. Naval hospital in Guam on March 2 after being injured in Vietnam on February 8. Corey graduated from Kimberly high school in 1966. He entered the U. S. Marine corp. on December 27, 1966 and left for Vietnam September 6, 1967.

The Kaukauna high school Varsity Wrestling team. Front row left to right, Mike Pomeroy, Dan Rogers, Don Bloy, Paul Peters, Gary Gartman and Dan Siebers. Second row, Steve Van Schyndel, Terry Van Wychen, Nick Kuhn, captain Dick Huss, Sam Beach, Dan Femal and coach Don Jensen.  

Don Jensen, Kaukauna High School wrestling coach, turned in his resignation Wednesday morning. Jensen will continue teaching Physical Education and will also remain coach of the cross-country squad. He coached wrestling at Kaukauna for four years with a 34-19-3 record.

Coach David Hash will be the recipient of a Certificate of Merit from the Wisconsin Coaches Association on March 16 at their annual meeting in Madison. Coach Hash will receive the award for guiding the Kaukauna Volleyball Team to the State Championship this year.

Sturgeon spearers in 1968 registered 21 sturgeon during the 28-day spearing season on Lake Winnebago. The 1968 season is the poorest season on record with the previous low in 1959 when 221 sturgeon were speared.

Sp4 Arthur J. Haen was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge of distinction for the fighting soldier. Sp4 Haen is serving in the army near Pleiku, Vietnam with the 4^th Infantry Division’s 1^st Calvary as a rifleman.

Army Pvt. David L. Berghuis, Kaukauna, is currently assigned to the Army Training Center, Armored at Fort Knox, Kn., to receive his basic training. After his initial training he will receive advanced individual on-the-job training to qualify him in a specialized military skill.

First Lt. Gerald R. Haen, Kaukauna, who was injured in a training exercise in Vietnam, is a patient in a Denver military hospital where he will receive skin grafts on burns to his hands.

March 20, 1968

Forty-two candidates are competing for places on this year’s edition of the Kaukauna High School baseball team under the direction of head coach Dave Hash. Hash and his assistant coach Harry Wilson will choose a team with an array of talent. Five seniors are out for the team. They are Mike Grogan, Tom Heiting, Ken Kappel, Kurt Luedtke and Bruce Specht.

Seaman Apprentice Thomas P. Collins, USN, 19, Kaukauna, has graduated from the Navy Basic Training Center at Great Lakes, Ill.

Pvt. Robert C. Arnold, Kaukauna, has been assigned to the 16^th Artillery in Germany. He received his basic training at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky and attended artillery school at Ft. Sill, Ok.

Sergeant Carlton F. Schmitt, Kaukauna, is on temporary duty at Anderson AFB, Guam. Sgt. Schmitt, a Strategic Air Command material specialist, supports B-52 Stratofortress aircrews who fly daily bombing missions against Viet Cong targets in Vietnam.

Shoulder safety belts now available on 1968 automobiles should be bought and used by all motorists, according to safety officials for the Wisconsin Division of American Automobile Association.

Sp4 Joseph M. Wildenberg, Little Chute, was visited by Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr at the U.S. Army Hospital, Camp Zama, Japan. Starr was on a USO Tour of U.S. Forces Hospital with other professional football players. Sp4 Wildenberg is assigned as a reconnaissance specialist with the 1^st Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam.

March 22, 1968

Spring is in the air and the golfers of KHS are seeking to improve on their .500 season last year. Coach Gene Ploetz welcomes back four returning lettermen and a crop of underclassmen hopefuls this week. Returning from last year’s squad are John Kuchelmeister, Mike Derus, Steve Wildenberg and John Rausch.

Airman Timothy J. Gerharz, Kaukauna, has completed basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. He is currently attending school as a security policeman.

March 27, 1968

Approximately 100 Kaukauna Legion Auxiliary and Post No. 41 members and guests celebrated the 50^th Anniversary of the American Legion with a Birthday Party at the Hub bar Saturday. Cmdr. Norman Meinert introduced the Pres. of Legion Auxiliary Mrs. N. Meinert who conducted the program. 

Kaukauna’s oldest and first, service station came down last week for a new one that will be erected on the same site. Located on the northwest corner of Main Avenue and Third St. The new site will be operated by Oscar Jahns and Randy Franzke along with a car wash.  (Picture from 1910)