Tuesday, August 20, 2019

Time Machine Trip to August 1949


Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen
August 3, 1949
Kaukauna police are continuing to conduct an intense search for the burglars with a taste for dapper clothing who stole an estimated $1,500 worth of men’s clothing from the Royal Clothing store early Saturday morning. Chief of police, Harold Engerson has questioned several suspects and alerts have been sent throughout the state.

The winners of the La Follette park doll contest are front row Sharon Lennert, Georgiana Champeau and Betty Gast. In the back-row Carol Borree, Diane Lennert. Naomi Carnot and Mary Huss.
  
August 5, 1949
Greenland Airport, located on the Leonard Van Zeeland farm north of Kaukauna, is the scene of activity this week as work on the new repair shop at the hangar is nearing completion. Several planes have landed this week as more business and people are using the Kaukauna airfield.

Richard W. Biese, seaman recruit USN, Kaukauna, is undergoing training at the world’s largest Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Ill.

Corporal Jacob H. Van Linn of Kaukauna is home on furlough visiting his parents on Fourth Street. Van Linn is stationed at Andrews Field, Washington.


Three Kaukauna twirlers were recently awarded prizes at the annual Wisconsin Spectacle of Music at Grant Park, South Milwaukee. Miss Sharon Goldin, right, was awarded second place in the national contest and received an 18-inch gold trophy and cash award. Placing eighth in the contest was Miss Barbara Oudenhoven, left, while Miss Dolores Vander Loop, center, received tenth place in the competition. Following the contest, the twirlers took part in a parade at South Milwaukee.

August 12, 1949

A crowd of about 400 persons gathered at the north side railroad station Wednesday to give a hometown hero’s sendoff to Tommy Trettin, Kaukauna’s entry in the National Soap Box Derby at Akron, Ohio, Sunday.



Youths who are eighteen years of age may now enlist in the US Army for a one-year period according to Army and Air Force recruiters in Appleton.

August 17, 1949
Tom Trettin, of Kaukauna, Northeastern Wisconsin’s entry in the All-American Soap Box Derby held Sunday in Akron, Ohio, finished third in his heat. Tom was credited in avoiding a serious accident by handling his car when another car in his heat lost a tire at the finish line. There were 148 entries in this year’s derby. Tom was awarded a wrist watch and a certificate for winning the Northeastern Wisconsin championship.

Pvt. Donald Sheehy, Brothers Street, Kaukauna, arrived home on a 10-day furlough. He recently graduated from engineering school at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

August 24, 1949
Leo H. Schmalz of Kaukauna will begin his fifth term as secretary of the Wisconsin Elks Association. He was reelected at the state convention held in Appleton.

August 26, 1949
Lloyd F. Kloehn, a member of the United States Navy, is spending a leave with his mother on Second Street. He is stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Training center in Illinois.

Although the city of Kaukauna cannot compare in size with those of New York or Chicago, its name has become known as far away as Hawaii. The Chicago Tribune has a story of Wisconsin visitor to Hilo, Hawaii being asked about the city in Wisconsin with a Hawaiian name. 

Kaukauna police apprehended a group of teenage shoplifters. The girls from Menasha 14 and 15 were charged with taking $91 in Merchandise from two Kaukauna stores. Kaukauna police chief Harold Engerson turned the girls over to the Menasha Police Department.

August 31, 1949
Funeral services will be held tomorrow at St. Mary’s Catholic Church for Joseph J. Kappell, 45, a workman at Kaukauna’s new swimming pool, who was killed Monday when ground around a 18 foot deep trench he was working in caved in.


Football is here and co-captains Pat Lehman and Mark Hoegh are shown receiving the gridiron equipment for the 1949 Kaukauna High School season.











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