Time Machine Trip to February 1982

 

Kaukauna Times - February 1982

By Lyle Hansen

February 2, 1982

Facing an increase in insurance costs and cuts in the annual budget, the Environmental Committee members will be in a search for funds.

Fran Gerow of Kaukauna was honored by the Kaukauna Athletic Club as its Man of the Year for 1981. Gerow contributes much of his free time to coaching the girls’ basketball and softball teams at St. Mary’s Grade school. 

 

February 4, 1982

Karl Borree, of Kaukauna, has been selected to play in the sixth annual Wisconsin Shrine Bowl football game. Borree starred for the KHS football team last fall during his senior year on the Ghosts’ team.  Nearly 400 players were nominated for the game to be held Saturday July 24 at Titan Stadium in Oshkosh.

 

February 9, 1982

Patricia Weyenberg, Wilson Street, Little Chute, will appear in a New York City production of Aristophanes’ 411 B.C. comedy “Lysistrata” February 11 through 28. Patricia is a graduate of St. John High School Little Chute and of the University of LaCrosse.  

The Kaukauna Times Printing Company is moving across the street to their new location.

February 11, 1982

Airman Gary D. Seif, Greiner Road, Kaukauna, has been assigned to Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois, after completing basic training. Seif is a 1979 graduate of Freedom High School. 

Parents and students will pay more for both general and special fees next year as the Kaukauna Board of education has raised their charges to keep up with inflation. Book fees for preschool through 5th grade will raise from $4 to $6.50. Pupils in grades 6 through 8 will raise $12 and fees for high school students will raise $15.

Lock operations on the Fox River may end early this coming season and permanently in 1983 if federal cut back proposals involving the Army Corp of Engineers are adopted.

Lisa Schwalenberg, East 14^th Street, Kaukauna, recently graduated from the Fox Valley Technical Institute in the Practical Nursing program. Lisa has excepted a position on the staff at the St. Paul Home. She is a 1978 Kaukauna High graduate.  

Acting on a recommendation from Police Chief Gerald Lopez the Public Protection and Safety Committee Tuesday eliminated a pair of north side school crossing guards. Guards will be eliminated at the corner of High Street and Highland Ave and the corner of Depot and Taylor streets.  

February 23, 1982

Members of the Kaukauna Street Department will receive a 9% pay increase under the new union contract, which also includes the maximum sick leave increase from 100 days to 120 days.

Terri Schommer, West 11^th Street, Kaukauna, received an Associate Degree in Nursing from the Fox Valley Technical Institute. Terri is a 1979 graduate of Kaukauna high school and has accepted employment at Appleton Memorial Hospital.

February 25, 1982

Kevin Lenius and Dave Viaene, the two Kaukauna wrestlers have gained a berth in this weekend's Class A public school state wrestling tournament in Madison. Lenius will take a 21-2 record into the 155-pound category while Viaene 23-0 in the heavyweight division.

Jeff Vissers, 16, a sophomore at Kimberly High School, and a member of Scout Troop 102 Kimberly has achieved the rank of Eagle scout.

 

 

Time Machine Trip to February 1972

 

Kaukauna Times - February 1972

By Lyle Hansen

February 2, 1972

Demolition is proceeding on the site of an XYZ Corporation warehouse which was partially destroyed by fire on October 11 of last year. The building will be completely razed, according to Wilbert Schenk, director of the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal Company, the building's owner. He said that the canal company has no immediate plans to erect a replacement structure at that location. The structure was originally part of the Badger Paper Company (succumbed to fire in 1897), and later the Badger Tissue Mills and Steiner Paper Company. It is located on Island Street.

A tentative agreement has been reached which with the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. As a result of this plan the city will pay the railroad only one quarter of the original $20,000 estimate cost of altering the track right of way so that the access to the area from Reaume Avenue may be extended into the area.

Airman Lois V. Nackers, 15^th Street Kaukauna, has completed her Air Force basic training at Lackland AFB, Texas. She has been assigned to Keesler AFB, Miss., as a personnel specialist. She is a 1970 graduate of Kaukauna High School.

A new name “First Wisconsin Savings and Loan Association” has been adopted and approved by the 86-year-old Kaukauna financial institution. Founded July 5th, 1885, as Kaukauna Building and Loan Association members voted to change the name to Kaukauna Savings and Loan association in January 1945. Last month the annual meeting members voted a new name which received approval from the state of Wisconsin, according to Leo H. Schmalz, executive vice president and general manager of the association.

The Ghosts posted their 3^rd victory. With only 10 seconds to play in the game quick handed Reed Giordana slapped the ball away from the Riverside East player to unsure a 62 - 60 win last Saturday night. 

 

February 4, 1972

Nancy Hendricks has been named Kaukauna High School’s Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow for 1972. She was chosen based on her score in a written and attitude examinations taken by 50 KHS senior girls in December.

February 9, 1972

Rev. Msgr. Peter A. Salm, 73, retired pastor of St, Mary’s Catholic Church, Kaukauna, died Thursday evening in Chilton, where he has lived since retiring. He was born in the town of Holland in 1898 and was pastor of St. Mary’s from 1955 through 1958.

February 16, 1972

Gail E. Janssen, President and General Manager of Badger Northland Inc., has been named along with 13 other leaders from farming, government and industry to a special Congressional committee studying problems confronting U.S. agriculture.

February 18, 1972

Firefighter Blaze, the most recently acquired member of the Kaukauna Fire Department, is being trained to sit on the truck by fireman Tom Roberts. Blaze was adopted by the department last year when she was a pup.

Pay and benefits increases for city street and sanitary employees came before the Kaukauna Common Council. Pay increases of twenty-two cent hourly across the board and that the city would contribute up to three dollars toward the monthly premiums for employees’ life insurance.

Don Hammen, 10 years old, Taylor Street caught the 36’’. 12-pound Northern pike on Shawano Lake recently.  

 

Tom Diedrich, Dixon St., entered the state-wide contest sponsored by a national old company, which involved estimating the weight of Green Bay Packer Donny Anderson, several transistor radios, Polaroid camera and a new Buick Skylark. Last week, Tom got the word that he had won the big prize the Buick Skylark automobile. Diedrick guessed close to the correct total of 4617 lb., 14.4 oz. 

February 23, 1972

Kaukauna, with 6870 telephones, has more telephones than 58 countries in the world, according to Richard Van Sistine local manager of the Wisconsin Telephone Company.

The US Flag is under attack and it needs your help.

Several members of the United States House of Representatives are proposing a bill that would make it illegal for people to fly the US Flag on their homes. The members claim the US flag is viewed as a racist symbol by many people in this country.   

 

Time Machine Trip to February 1962

 

Kaukauna Times – February 1962

By Lyle Hansen

February 2, 1962

 

About 25 foxes and one coyote are currently on display at Doolittle’s sport shop on West Division Street. Most of the animals were bagged in the Freedom and Askeaton area. In addition to collecting bounties on the animals, the furs are also sold, which makes the sport fairly profitable according to Dave Doolittle, one of the hunting group of ten men.

 

February 9, 1962

Phil Zwick

Golden Gloves Boxing matches at the Green Bay Arena will have a strong Kaukauna emphasis Monday. Amateurs from Escanaba and Fond du Lac will compete for an opportunity to go to Chicago tournament later in the season. The proceeds are going to a Kaukauna charity “The Phil Zwick Fund”. Zwick was a well known boxer from Kaukauna who boxed throughout the world. He is now stricken with an illness that has him fighting for his life at his home in Vallejo, Calif.

 

February 14, 1962

91 residential lots are for sale in the Hyland Heights Plat north of highway 41 in Kaukauna. Lots include gravel streets, water and sewer laterals. Starting lot prices begin at $1750.00.

 

February 16, 1962

The Kaukauna Athletic Club defeated the traveling Texas Cowgirl quintet at the KHS gymnasium Tuesday evening by the score of 87-82. The sleet, ice and snow did not deter a fair crowd from watching the game. 

 

February 21, 1962

The Kaukauna Lions club will be hosting a benefit for a new wing to the St. Paul Home here in Kaukauna. The Kaukauna Athletic Club cagers will take on the Green Bay Packerderm team. The team is composed of members of the Green Bay Packers. The team is coached by Norb Hecker, who normally directs the offensive backfield for the Packers. Coaching the Kaukauna team is KHS varsity coach Gerald Hopfensperger.

 

February 23, 1962

The Kaukauna Galloping Ghost basketball team will wind up its 1961-62 Mid-Eastern conference season this evening. Standing left to right are Gary Weigman, Dave Lamers, Ron Straus, Dan Van Dyke, Jim Brown, Dan Biese, Don Rademacher, Dick Promer, John Robedeaux, Jim Niesen, Tom Otte and Lester O’Brien. Kneeling in the foreground are Manager Herman Runte, head coach Gerald Hopfensperger and Manager Bob Ludke.

A near capacity crown was on hand Thursday evening to watch the KAC team defeat the Green Bay Packerderm team by a score of 62-61. The Packers had a last second chance for the win with 3 seconds on the clock. Fuzz Thurston threw the ball into Lew Carpenter, who arched a shot at the basket as the buzzer sounded. The shot missed its mark and Kaukauna got the win. 

A drawing of the proposed new $1 1/2 million addition to Kaukauna High School was released this week by George C. Narovec and Associates, architects for the project and the Kaukauna Board of Education. The addition is pictured as it will appear with the present high school and vocational school buildings. Included in the plans are a double unit gymnasium, a section with 18 conventional style classrooms, in addition to several offices, a cafeteria, and a commons area for student activities and overflow from the cafeteria. The new addition will be connected to the existing school by means of passage on the first and second floors. Barring unforeseen delays, the target date for completion of the project will be in September of 1963.

 

February 28, 1962

Tying for third place in the state finals of the Wisconsin State Forensics League at Madison were Kau-Hi’s Varsity debaters. Representing Kaukauna were Lynn Kehoe, Frances Nelson, Anthony Schlude and Jeffrey DeBruin.

Airman Basic Wayne J. Merbach, Main Ave. Kaukauna, is being assigned to the U. S. Air Force technical training course at Amarillo AFB, Texas. Merbach is a 1961 graduate of Kaukauna High School.    

A/3C David Lindemuth, Kaukauna, graduated with honors from Sheppard AFB Training Center, Texas.

Frederick R. Freiberg, musician third class, USN, Lawe St., Kaukauna, is serving with Amphibious Forces Pacific.

 

Three Marine Corps privates from Kaukauna are scheduled to complete combat training with the Second Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Pendleton, California.

Richard J. Berkers, Wisconsin Ave.

 

Robert L. Trude, Jefferson St.  

 

James L. Zwick, Hendricks Ave.  

Commander George J. Brill, 73, former Kaukaunan and retired Navy and Coast Guard officer, died after a short illness. in Savannah, Ga. Brill was a New York orphan, who came to Kaukauna as a small boy on the orphan train. Mr. and Mrs. John Brill adopted him, and he grew up in Kaukauna until he joined the navy in 1906.