Kaukauna Times April 1951
By Lyle Hansen
April 4, 1951
Howard Fenske, one of
the best southpaw fighters ever to be turned out of Kaukauna High school,
completed his prep career last week. He had nine wins and one defeat in his
bouts.
Daniel Geske, West Seventh street, recently
completed his boot camp at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes,
Illinois.
Army sergeant Robert Bartels, who was recently
home on leave, was wounded in the Korean fighting, according to word received
by his parents. He received a bullet wound to his right hand and is confined to
a hospital in Tokyo, Japan.
Three Kaukauna acrobats will make their first appearance on a TV show Saturday afternoon at Milwaukee. They are Pat and Lois Frank and Honey O’Brien. The girls are known as the Electric City trio.
April 6, 1951
Wilmer Rosenthal, 10-year-old, escaped serious
injury Tuesday morning. He was hit by a car passing the school bus he had
gotten off. He did not have any serious injuries and there was no damage
reported to the car.
April 11, 1951
Kimberly – A memorial mass will be said for Private
Ervin Melcher, Jr., 18, at Holy Name church, Kimberly. Pvt. Melcher was killed
in action in Korea March 15, according to a war department telegram received by
his parents Thursday night.
April 13, 1951
Joseph Schouten was
elected to head the Kaukauna Lions Athletic club, a new organization within the
Lions club.
Robert Miller, one of the hardest punchers ever
to take the ring at Kaukauna High school, was named as the 1951 boxing captain,
after a vote of team members. Miller has gone through three years of high
school boxing without tasting defeat.
Wrightstown – Joseph Berger Jr., has been named
valedictorian of the 1951 graduating class at Wrightstown High school.
Jerry Klarer, one of the better young baseball
prospects from Kaukauna, reported to the Madisonville, Kentucky Class D team
today for the 1951 season. Klarer is the first Kaukauna baseball to ink a
professional contract in a number of years. He batted a .429 for the Kaukauna
High School baseball team last year.
Little Chute – Top honors in the
woman’s division of the Wisconsin Archers association Indoor championship
tournament held last weekend in Kimberly club house were won by Della Grimm of
Little Chute. She shot a 660.
Phil Zwick, Kaukauna nationally
known featherweight boxer, left over the weekend to make his home in Africa. A
veteran boxer of over 25 years, Zwick fought more than 200 ring battles.
April 29, 1951
Lewis F. Nelson, former Kaukauna mayor and a
strong supporter of the plan to establish a state park at Lower Cliff,
testified in Madison Wednesday before a legislative committee on state parks.
Leo Hagany, Taylor street, a member of the
Naval Reserve, has been recalled to duty. Hagany served in the navy for three
years during World War II.
Little Chute – Barbara Strick, 3, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Strick, Little Chute, was drowned in the waters of the Fox River
about noon Thursday, when she fell into the river while playing along the
bank.
George “Stormy” Kromer, veteran baseball
enthusiast and manager of several Kaukauna teams in the past years, resigned as
an engineer of the Chicago and North Western railroad Saturday after 54 years
on the job. Kromer, 74, hopes to spend his time with his first love baseball in
the future.
April 27, 1951
Corporal Shirley Mae Baeten, Kaukauna, of the
Women’s Army corps is home on a 22-day furlough from her station a Camp
Stoneman, California.
Cpl. Myron Vande Hey, Wisconsin Avenue, has
been reported wounded on the Korean front several weeks ago. He is recuperating
in a military hospital in Japan from a leg wound.
Naval Aviation Cadet John A. Deering, Kaukauna, took off and landed his SNJ “Texan” trainer six times recently aboard the USS Monterey in the Gulf of Mexico to complete his training.
Lawrence A. Gerend was elected president
of the Kaukauna Rotary club Wednesday. He succeeds T. H. Boebel as head of the
club.
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