Saturday, October 19, 2019

Time Machine Trip to October 1949


Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

October 5, 1949
Four Kaukauna men were injured in an automobile accident on Hwy 41 Monday evening. They are all in St. Elizabeth hospital. They are John Andrejeski, Seventh Street, Bill Kelly, Doty Street, Lorenz Mayer, E. Eight street, James Weigman, Eleventh street. 


Phil Haas, Kaukauna’s contribution to the Lawrence college football team has proved his talents this season. In the opening Viking game, he scored two touchdowns and led the running attack. His passes were instrumental in the 19-0 win over Grinnell a week later and last week he got off five punts against Cornell average of 55 yards.

James Giordana, Kaukauna, is now stationed with the army in Berlin, Germany. He has been in the army for the past 8 months. 

An automobile with a leaking tank being repaired at Coffey Motors resulted in a fire yesterday. Mechanic Leonard Bloy, 20, Third street narrowly excepted burns in the incident.


The Quonset huts, Kaukauna federal housing project, on Crooks Avenue will be receiving twenty-five new oil burners. Twenty-six families live in the 13 units. 





October 12, 1949
Kaukauna’s pig fair last Saturday saw the expected heavy marketing of six to nine-week-old pigs. About 800 to 100 being sold. Beside the pigs there were a large number of dogs and puppies sold.

Students were out in full force at the Greenland Airport last weekend taking advantage of the ideal flying weather. Joseph Van Daalwyk who received the inspiration for flying as he watched the air show on Labor Day made his first solo flight last Wednesday.

October 14, 1949
The stork was kept on the move filling orders for Kaukauna families during the last three months for stats show that sixty-six babies were delivered to Kaukauna residents during that time. Thirty-two were boys and thirty-four were girls. 


High School students watch the Times “go to bed” as part of Journalism week. Front row left to right: Dolores Vander Loop, Francis Huss, Jeanne Biselx, Ruth Van De Loo, Pat Natrop, Margaret Brewster. Behind them: LaVerne Van Dyke, Harriet Mueller, Sharon Goldin, Joann Carnot, Lucille Weiss, Carol Rausch, Dorothy Kline, Yvonne Emperor, Margaret Whitman. Boys in the rear: Mark Schommer, James Swedberg, Jerry Kroll, Dick Myrhum and Ed Ladenburger.

Richard Biese, a member of the U.S. Navy, is spending a twelve day leave with his parents on Brother Street. He is stationed at the Naval Training Center at Great Lakes, Illinois.

October 21, 1949
Corporal Theodore Wiedenbeck arrived at Kaukauna Saturday to spend a 15-day furlough with his parents. He has been stationed in England. 

Miss Dolores Vander Loop, Maria Street, Kaukauna, appeared with the Green Bay Packers Lumber Jack band at the Milwaukee State Fair grounds. She twirled during the halftime period of the Chicago Cardinal – Packer game.

October 28, 1949
Tom Niesen led the Holy Cross gridders to a 19-0 win over St. Mary’s grade school Tuesday on the Kaukauna Athletic field before a crowd of about 1000. Niesen scored three times during the fray, to bring Holy Cross’s winning streak to 14 over their cross the river rivals.
 
Kaukauna high school football team – Top row: Assistant Coach Fred Barribeau, John Haen, Bill McGowan, Dave Huss, Bill Jahns, Ronald Luckow, Charles Velte, Harold Faust, Marvin Hietpas, Paul Maes, John Hermans, Coach Guy Krumm, Mr. Shorey. Third row: Bob Steger, Dick Borree, Dan Glasheen, Rich Giordana, Greg Vander Velden, Ken Nushart, Bob Wenzel, Ken Roloff, Dave Ristau, Louden Brooks, Clarence Smith. Second row: Bill Taylor, Bud Weyers. John Noonan, Bob Whitman, Dave Zwick, Tony Schuh, Tom Gustman, Jerry Kroll, Francis Gerow, Bob Grawitch, Bill McGinnis, Ed Ladenburger. Bottom row: Don Kroll, Don Woelz, Jim Wahlers, Douglas George, Jerry Klarer, Bob Roloff, Pat Lehman, Mark Hoegh, Mark Schommer, James Janssen, Clarence Lamers, Dick Myrhum, Dave Berens.


















1949 Lincoln 

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