Time Machine Trip to January 1952

 

Kaukauna Times January 1952

By Lyle Hansen

January 11, 1952

The annual report of the Kaukauna Fire department show that 122 calls were made by the department in 1951. Fire losses during the year in the city amounted to $54,012.40.

Ed C. Feldmann, Kaukauna broom maker, says that he is glad to make the broom. Ed made a giant broom eight feet tall at his factory on Gertrude Street. This week the broom was shipped to Senator Joe McCarthy of Appleton, instructing him to use it for a good “house cleaning” at the nation’s capital. If there is going to be a “clean sweep” of communists and other undesirables from Washington.

 

January 16, 1952

The Kaukauna High School gymnasium Saturday night will feature two hours of wrestling sponsored by the Kaukauna Lions Athletic Club. Featured in the show will be Wisconsin’s most famous grappling combination Howard and Mike Blazer of Green Bay. The brothers will tangle with Castas De Villis and Jack Witzig. 

Boy Scouts of Troop 51 Little Chute formed the honor guard for Earl Kieffer at St. John’s church.

Funeral services for a newspaper carrier boy killed Friday afternoon while delivering his route were held Monday at St. John’s church, Little Chute. Earl Kieffer, 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs., Sylvester G. Kieffer, was delivering the Post Crescent when he was struck by a car near Highway 96 and Sanatorium.

Guy R. Krumm, who coached Kaukauna High School football teams to four championships in five years, resigned from his position as coach Tuesday. He will remain on the faculty as a teacher and athletic director.

January 18, 1952

Henry Minkebige, Kaukauna bowler will be honored on the fiftieth anniversary of his playing the game at a big celebration Sunday afternoon at Van Abel’s Hollandtown. In fifty years, he has maintained a life time average of 175 and was a member of Kaukauna’s state championship team in 1920. The closest he came to a 300 was a 289 in 1930. Hank’s bowling career started on a pair of alleys in the present S & B location managed by Dick McCarty. “We bowled matches in various locations on the southside. The Princess had four alleys next to Haas Hardware.” There were also alleys in what is now Kuehn & Simon meat market and Rupert’s alleys were in the present Masonic Temple building. The northside alleys were replaced by Frank and Clem Hilgenberg, who put in four lanes.

January 23, 1952

Three new junior editors will take over the high school Broadcaster for this semester. They are Joan Van Zeeland, Eunice Weyers and James Brewster, sports editor.

Mayor Joseph Bayorgeon will seek is fourth consecutive term has announced that he will be a candidate for the office in the coming elections on April 1.  

January 30, 1952

Henry Esler, 73, of 408 E. Seventh Street, chief of the Kaukauna fire department for 15 years, died at 4:30 Thursday afternoon at St Elizabeth's Hospital, Appleton. He had been ill for the last two days but had been suffering from a heart ailment for the last year and a half.

 

January 4, 1952

Gene Schiedermayer, 21, Lawe Street, has enlisted in the United States Air Force and is now in training at Lakeland Air Force Base in Texas.

Pfc. Keith Thyroin is spending an eleven day leave at his parents’ home on Green Bay Road. He is currently assigned to Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., as a radar repairman.

Sgt. Kenneth Stokes of the United States Marine corps, left for Norfolk, Va., after spending 7 days leave with his parents on W. Seventh Street.

Sergeant Jean R. Benway, a member of the Women’s Army Corp. arrived home for a thirty-day furlough with her family on East Tenth Street. Benway has spent the last 62 months in Japan. She is serving with the Ordnance Supply in Yokohama, Japan.

 

January 9, 1952

A homecoming celebration Sunday was held at the Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pleshek home on East Ninth Street to welcome their son, Corporal Roger Pleshek. Corporal Pleshek enlisted three years ago. He recently received his discharge at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana.

January 11, 1952

Corporal Richard Schroeder arrived home Tuesday evening after receiving is discharge from the army after serving three years. He had been injured in the leg by fragments of a shell while serving in Korea in 1950.

Twelve Kaukauna men will leave this morning for induction into the armed forces. They are William Rogers, Douglas George, Carlton Brown, Glen Horn, Robert Van Drasek, Eugene Van Lanen, and John Nytes. From rural routes are Edward Ebben, Robert Mischler, Clarence Weyenberg, Kenneth Kobel and Leonard Ver Hasselt.

January 16, 1952

Tom Van Abel of route 3, Kaukauna, who is stationed with the army in France has been promoted to sergeant.

 

Private First-Class Gerald J. Nytes, Seventh Street, is confined to a hospital in Japan. The Kaukauna youth was injured in a truck accident in Seoul in Korea. The truck he was in plunged down an embankment. He received a broken right wrist and injured his left shoulder.  

January 18, 1952

Sgt. Leo A. Fink, 22, route 3 Kaukauna, has been assigned to Pepperrell Air Base, Newfoundland as a shipping control specialist. 

 

Clifford D. Hinkens, West Second Street Kaukauna, who is serving with the air force in Korea has been promoted to corporal. He is working in an air force supply office.

January 23, 1952

Sergeant John J. Kramer, who has been visiting his parents on Sarah street since the holidays has returned to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.

Airman Robert Wittman, who is stationed with the Navy Ari Force at Atlantic City, N. J., is spending a leave at the home with his mother Route 1, Kaukauna.

Eugene Wallenfang, 17, of route 2, Kaukauna, is now undergoing his basic training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas.

January 25, 1952

Private Glenn J. Horn, Augustine Street, who recently was inducted into the army is stationed at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.

 

Pvt. John E. Nytes East Seventh Street is taking his army basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina. He is assigned with the 8^th Infantry division.

Three area men enlisted in the Air Force. They are Robert Roloff, 20, Blackwell Street, Kaukauna.  David Bowers, 19, Wrightstown, and James Van Eyck, 20, Elm Street, Kimberly.

Merrill Besaw, 20, route 3, Kaukauna, has enlisted in the army for two years. He was sent to Fort Sheridan.

January 30, 1952

Sergeant First Class Clifford Owen Fischer, Kaukauna, recently arrived in Japan from Korea. He is serving with the 1^st Cavalry Division. Fischer, 24, served in Korea since April 1951 as a supply sergeant and wears the Combat Infantryman Badge and the Korean Service Ribbon.

Little Chute – Ben Vanden Heuvel Madison Street, left recently to begin service in the army.

Sgt. John Lettau and his wife will be spending a 21-day furlough with their parents in Kaukauna. After his furlough he will report to Fort Bliss, Texas, where he will enter a school of artillery.