Time Machine Trip to May 1968

May 1, 1968

Lester Morrill, Henry Olm, Dr. Robert McCarty, Jack Farwell, Les “lefty” Smith, and  Karl Rennicke; these were the six names inducted into the Kaukauna High School Athlelic Hall of Fame Saturday night at the All-Sports Banquet.

Captain Ronald P. Vandenberg is the Commanding Officer with the 826 Ordinance Ammo company of Madison, Wis., one of the units called up for active duty in the recent call up from Wisconsin.

May 3, 1968

Christine Koch was recently named Badger Girl for 1968. Chris, a Kaukauna high school junior was chosen to participate in the annual week-long workshop in government along with 500 other girls from Wisconsin in June.

The Kaukauna High School thinclads won their first dual track meet of the season Tuesday over the Menasha Bluejays 66 ½ - 50 ½. Mark Tatro the only double winner for the Ghosts who copped eight firsts to Menasha’s six. Tatro led the pack in both the low and high hurdles and was followed by Dan Flynn who followed close behind Tatro.  

May 10, 1968

The Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington D.C., Thursday authorize the grant of $1,051,408 to the City of Kaukauna for the construction of the 74-unit housing development for low income families. Mayor Gilbert Anderson got the word in a call from the office of Sen. Gaylord Nelson. Kaukauna is the first community in this part of the state to get the go-ahead on this kind of a project.

May 15, 1968

Stanley Plzak, Kaukauna, is among nineteen students and the Army reserve officer training Corps (ROTC) unit at the University of Wisconsin in Madison were presented with awards for their outstanding work in the military training and studies.

May 17, 1968

Dick Jerow, Kaukauna, scored a hole-in-one on the 35-yard water hole at the new Fox Valley Golf Club Saturday, the first ace to be scored on this hole.

Vernon Meulemans, Wrightstown, was crowned the singles champion in the 22nd annual City Championship Tournament of the Kaukauna Bowling Association. Meulemans ended up with a 710 series. 

Leo Haen, Kaukauna, elected president of the Kaukauna Lions Club at their meeting Tuesday at the Fox Valley Golf Club. 

May 22, 1968

An alert off duty Kaukauna policeman, James Egan, rescued a thirteen-year-old Kimberly youth on the island in the Fox River Sunday afternoon. The youth, Jeff Huntington, had slipped and fell into the river while walking along the bank with three companions. Strong currents carried him downstream to one of the many islands in the area. As many onlookers watched, Egan security a rope from the shore to the island then crossed to the island using the rope. Eagan took two life jackets with him to secure the youth. 

May 28, 1968

The Kaukauna High School baseball team advanced to a showdown with Menasha for the district baseball crown by defeating Kimberly 3-2 at the London on Thursday.

May 30, 1968

Calvin Spice, Kaukauna, announced that he will be a candidate for the Sheriff of Outagamie County in the fall election. Spice is now undersheriff and has served two previous terms as sheriff in the County. Spice has worked in the field of law enforcement for twenty-one years. He was a member of Kaukauna Police Department from 1947 to 1953, when he joined the Outagamie County traffic police force.

Army Private Jack Vander Sanden, 20, has been assigned

to the 2^nd Infantry Division in Korea.

  

Marine Private Mark Mantei, Kimberly, is going through recruit training at San Diego, Calif. Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

Sp5 Dennis O. Kiffe, Kaukauna, was recently promoted to his current rank in Headquarters Company 555 Combat Engineer Group. Sp5 Kiffe is legal clerk for the company.

Marine PFC Thomas Schell, Kaukauna, is participating in the weeklong amphibious training exercise “Beagle Leach” at Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Five Kaukauna young men were among the twenty-two inductees from Outagamie County into the U.S. Army on April 29. From Kaukauna are Gary Kloehn, Gary Hostettler, John Hartl, Donald Blair, and Donald Jansen.

Kaukauna’s new city ambulance arrived last Friday. Shown by the new vehicle are left to right, Mrs. George Hurst and Mrs. Gen Andersen of the GARD committee, Mayor Gilbert Anderson and assistant health officer James Gertz.

State Bowling championship was won by this group of Kaukauna Rotary club team who have the joy of keeping the huge traveling trophy during this year. Left to right are Mark Nagan, Carl Ploetz, Ernest Trude and C. L. Roy Reichert.