Tuesday, November 5, 2019

Time Machine Trip to November 1959


The Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

November 4, 1959
The St. Mary's Catholic grade school gridders Sunday afternoon completed an undefeated and untied season as they took a 20-6 decision over the Green Ghost of Holy Cross in the annual featured wind-up of the year at the high school athletic field. With their unbeaten record the lads of St. Mary's also collected their first Catholic boys’ league championship since 1952.

November 6, 1959

The official closing of navigation for 1959 on the upper and lower Fox River from DePere to Portage and on the Wolf River from its mouth to New London is scheduled for November 18 according to the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Chicago Bears Sunday afternoon will be hosting the Green Bay Packers and the third meeting of the season in Chicago. It may surprise many to learn that the Bears are not the Packers most ancient enemies. The Packer-Cardinal series predates the Bears series by exactly one week.  The Packers were defeated by the New York Giants last week 20-3. “I shouldn't have started McHan,” Lombardi said. “He had a bad shoulder and didn’t throw all week, if I had to do it all over, I would have gone with Joe Francis.” “The Giants beat us on defense, we never got out of the hole except one time. It was the best defensive game I've ever seen the Giants play.” 

The 1959 football season came to a very sudden and unexpected conclusion Wednesday, when the Papermakers conceded their final game to the Ghost because of rain, snow and wet grounds. Coach Fred Barribeau of the KAWs, offered to play a postponed game on any field available but Kimberly declined the offer on the grounds that they would be unable to get the proper number of days practice in for the first match of the 1959-60 basketball season.
 
Berg’s Cleaners - Our new remodeled plant is but the first step in our plan of continued improvements.   

November 11, 1959
At the final meeting of Kaukauna Galloping Ghosts football team for the 1959 season held early this week, six members of the squad were singled out for special honors, according to the announcement by head coach Fred Barribeau. Selected as co-captains for the 1960 season were Bruce Bay, and Pete Bachhuber. The two youths replace Bruce Ludke who will be graduating in 1960. Gary Novak was voted by his teammates as the most improved player on 1959 team.

November 13, 1959
The Kaukauna Board of Education Tuesday night began making immediate plans for record influx of first graders in September 1960 as they were informed by the St. Mary's Catholic parochial school that it was discontinuing its first grade.  The school stated that space considerations at the present school was what forced them to discontinue the first grade and plan to send future students to the city's public schools.

November 18, 1959
With only five days remaining before the final Green Bay Packers vs Washington Redskins football game at the Brown County Stadium in Green Bay, Art Mongin, Packer director and local ticket source reports that he has tickets available at the Look South Side drugstore in all price ranges.


The resignation of head football coach Fred Barribeau from that position at KHS was accepted Tuesday night “with regret” by the members of Kaukauna Board of Education. Barribeau will remain as a faculty member at the school but is severing all connections with the school's athletic programs. Barribeau has devoted a full 20 years in coaching a variety of high school athletics.

Earning straight A for the first quarter of the 1959-60 school year were Karen Lindemuth, junior, and Sandra Kern, senior.

Carl Ploetz and Carol DeBroux with 257 singles and Tom Eiting with a 599 series lead the bowlers at the business league on November 10 at the Bowling Bar.
  
Winning the first-place awards in the small fleet division of the National Safety Council are celebrated by drivers of the Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company Saturday night. The company hosted drivers at a dinner. Some 2000 fleets competed in the contest according to the National Safety Council. At the dinner the company's insurance carrier honored individual safe driving records. Receiving awards for years of safe driving were: Marvin Biese and Gerald Schmidt, 22 years; Raymond Britten, 20 years; Robert Wegard, 17 years; Albert Kersten, Jr., 16 years; Hugo Wenzel, 15 years; Phelan Femal, 12 years; John Grissman, 10 years; William Meulemans, 9 years; William Schmitz, Jr., 8 years; Dale Kilgas, 7 years; Leroy Reimer, 6 years; George Huss, 3 years; Leo Wilz, 2 years.

November 20, 1959
The new city ordinance established the following salaries: city attorney $3600, city clerk $6000, city relief and recreation director $5933.45, city assessor and building inspector $5600, deputy clerk $3900, city stenographer $3900, Mayor $3600, superintendent of the sewage plant $5500 city treasurer $4591.17 foreman street department $5800, city nurse $5000, Aldermen $900.  Salaries for the fire and police department are set as follows, chief of police $6183.28, police Lieut. $5265.24, Police Sgt. $5069.63, policeman after one year $4723.05. The chief bridge operator will receive $3870.36.

Tom Smith was named the grand champion of the Pine Wood Derby held at the Pack 27 meeting Monday evening Melvin Biersteker was the consolation winner. 

November 24, 1959
Four members of the 1959 Kaukauna Galloping Ghosts football team have been selected as all-conference players by a poll of coaches last week. Doug Ludvigsen and Gary Novak were selected first team defense. Myron Zachowski and Bruce Ludke were named first team offense. 

November 26, 1959
All the Christmas ornaments and greenery for the lampposts on the south side of Kaukauna have been put in place and the community tree was at its usual seasonal stand atop the city garage early Wednesday afternoon and the work begins on E. Wisconsin Ave. William Ranquette, manager of Kaukauna Electric and Water Department reported that the tree lights were scheduled to be on the first time on Wednesday evening.  

Shirley Hurst slammed a National Honor Count 612 series and a 212 single in the Thursday night Ladies League at the Bowling Bar.

Everyone Welcome

Tonight Wednesday, November 11, is the time set aside for you as citizens to visit Kaukauna High School to see what new opportunities for learning are available for your students.  



Darlene Vanevenhoven in Spanish class learning from a tape recorder.














Student William Coffey is studying new Advanced Mathematics for seniors.










Sophomore James Heinzl is using the newly added
Assignment book in World History.









An unusual vehicle owned by the C&NW railroad made a brief stop in Kaukauna recently to inspect some railroad cars in the south yards. To all outwards appearances the car is normal in every respect, except for the fact that it has railroad wheels which fold up in front of the car when not in use and warning lights and a bell.   



















1959 General Motors Automobiles 

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