Kaukauna Times – January 1972
By Lyle Hansen
January 5, 1972
Staff Sgt. Timothy J. Gerhartz, Sarah Street, has arrived home from Vietnam after serving a year of duty. He has been discharged from the Air Force after a four-year enlistment.
Cpl. Patrick Campbell of the Kaukauna Police
Department signed the contract between the Kaukauna Professional Policemen’s
Association and the city of Kaukauna. Cpl. Campbell was elected this week as
president of the city organization.
January 12, 1972
Mayor Gilbert Anderson has taken out nomination
papers for his third term in office.
Sergeant Wayne T. Hatton, Augustine Street, has
arrived for duty at Nellie AFB, Nev. Sgt. Hatton an aircraft maintenance
specialist is assigned to air support of U.S. ground troops.
January 14, 1972
Airman Thomas L. Aerts completed his U.S. Air
Force basic training at Lackland AFB, Tex. He is now assigned to Lowry AFB,
Colo., for training in the supply field. He is a 1971 graduate of Kimberly High
School.
Airman Donna M. Meulemans, Rt. 2, Kaukauna, has
completed her U. S. Air Force basic training at the Air Training Command’s
Lackland AFB, Tex. She will now be assigned to Keesler AFB, Mis., in the
communicates field.
Eighty-three persons were charge by the
Kaukauna Police Department in 1971 with misdemeanor and felony charges ranging
from driving under the influence of alcohol to aggravated assault and other
offenses according to Police Chief William Nagel today.
Carl J. Hansen, publisher of the
Kaukauna Times, will be honored by the Wisconsin Press association with a
golden member certificate in Oshkosh today. As a boy of 14 Carl Hansen set his
first stick of type, fed paper into a press, and wrote his first news stories.
He had an after-school job at the Denmark Press in 1914. At the age of 16 he
wrote a letter to the Marinette Eagle Star asking for a job selling advertising
and working in the composing room. He was hired and began working there in
1916. He landed a job at the newspaper in Beaver Dam working days and attending
college at night. Working in Milwaukee he attended night school at the School
of Engineering. Not yet twenty, he became advertising manager of the Wisconsin
Rapids Weekly and a year later began working at a daily newspaper in Merrill.
His next move was to Escanaba, Mi., as the advertising salesman. In 1923 he
purchased the Crandon newspaper and in 1925, at the age of 25, he purchased The
Kaukauna Times and became the editor and publisher of the newspaper and
printing company.
January 19, 1972
People of Kaukauna had to try to stay warm as
the temperate dipped to 29 below. Leo
Driessen of the local gas company stated, “It was definitely a record day on
Friday.” “Some industries were notified
to begin using standby fuel basis.” Most large industries were able to switch
to propane or oil for the three-day cold wave.
David Voights, Crooks Ave., is currently on a
twenty-day leave prior to his reassignment to the Far East aboard the USS
Camden. Voights, a former Times employee, enlisted in July last year for a
three tour of duty in the U.S. Navy.
January 21, 1972
Congratulations to Kaukauna’s Bob Wurdinger,
coach of the Hollandtown football Raiders, were extended by Wisconsin Coach
John Jardine, left, at the Red Smith Sports Awards dinner Tuesday. Bob has been
the coach of the Hollandtown Raiders for the past nine years in which his teams
have compiled an impressive record of 98-8-3. This year Bob was selected to
receive the Kaukauna Athletic Club Man of the Year Award at the Red Smith
Awards Banquet.
The Kaukauna Common Council voted to approve a
cost-of-living wage increase of 5½ percent for members of the city government
administrative staff.
January 26, 1972
The J. J. Martens Co., which has been operating
on Third Street since 1901, has been sold to the Lee Department Store of De
Pere. The company began in 1895 when Julius J. Martens, then 24, started a
grocery store. In 1901 he formed a corporation with his brother Hugo and his
father. They built the current building opening a general store.
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