Time Machine Trip to February 1940

Kaukauna Times - By Lyle Hansen

February 2, 1940

Carl Ploetz, of the K. E. & W. team, rolled a 621 series on the Wednesday night league at the S & B Alleys.

February 7, 1940

President Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Great speculation prevails in Washington as to whether President Roosevelt will seek a third term or not,” according to eight district congressman Joshua Johns. “The next president of the United States will have a heavy burden to carry. It will take a young man strong in body and mind.” 

Kaukauna walloped West De Pere 48 to 24 Friday night at De Pere putting the Kaukauna squad one game out of first place. Giordana again led the Kaws with 28 points and Alger with 12 and Koch with 11.

Andy Hardy has girl trouble again in “judge Hardy and Son” which opens Sunday at the Rialto for the three-day show.

February 9, 1940

Enrollment at the school of vocational and adult education at the end of January totaled 529, according to director William T. Sullivan. Unemployed young people of the city are taking advantage of the educational opportunities offered by the vocational school.

February 14, 1940

“The reason that the average life of an Indian is 36 years longer than that of a white man is due chiefly to the fact that Indians go to bed at sunset and rise before dawn,” said Chief Whitefeather, a full blooded Indian at a lyceum program at the high school Tuesday morning. He said the Indian believes in three essentials of life, sun, earth and water. 

Fire shortly before noon Friday destroyed the former Little Chute Pulp company building at Combined Locks, a 40-year-old structure estimated loss is $25,000. The building was owned by the Green Bay and Mississippi Cabal company and was leased to the Combined Locks mill in 1914.

Holy Cross defeated St. Mary’s Saturday morning 14 to 0 to take over first place in the grade school league. Lanky Ervin Lucassen led the Holy Cross in its one-sided win. He used his height to advantage to score five baskets for 10 points.

February 23, 1940

The question to restoration of the salaries of firemen and policemen to the 1932 level will hold up adoption of the city’s salary ordinance until next week when the common council will decide the matter.

February 28, 1940

The former building of the Union Bag and Paper Company, owned by the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company, has been leased by the Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company and will be used for additional converting quarters and storage rooms by the Thilmany Company. The Union Company is no longer in operation here.

More children died in traffic accidents last year according to a report from the Wisconsin Motor Vehicle Department. creasing. Lives of 151 persons under 20 years of age were lost in accidents last year compared with 132 in 1938.

High school ice skaters who won races are J. Winn, Harold Vandenberg, J. Wandell, Coach Mr. Kemp, Joan Derus, L. Smith and Laverne Lopas.

1940 Ford Coupe Deluxe