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, 15th 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 3rd 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.
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