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.