Time Machine Trip to March 1972

Kaukauna Times – March 1972

By Lyle Hansen

March 1, 1972

 

Clayton Vanden Broek, Kaukauna, was one of over a thousand successful sturgeon spearers during the season which ended Wednesday. The sturgeon is 68” long and weighs 100 pounds.

Kaukauna’s only hope at the state wrestling meet, Jerry Van Dyn Hoven, polished off the 1971-72 Mat season by bringing a 6th place finish back with him from the State Meet held last week in Madison.

Larry Verhagen, whose 40 years in the food business in Kaukauna date back to his days as the delivery boy for J. L. Anderson on Wisconsin Ave, is celebrating a big anniversary this week. Larry’s two supermarkets on Hy 55 and Hy 96 have put up the anniversary decorations and are launching a big sale and celebration.

In another effort to find a way to keep financially strained St. John’s High School to continue operation in Little Chute, a group of parishioners, working independently of the parish council, will canvas the village Thursday. They will attempt to get commitments for funds from citizens.

 

March 8, 1972

Al “Sonny” Wegand, Kaukauna, battled Wednesday’s snowstorm to go fishing at Two Creeks and caught this 33 ½ inch, 16 ¾ pound Rainbow trout.

 

Kaukauna police officers are investigating the theft of a newly purchased snow blower from the garage of a southside man and looking into the alleged incident of materials being removed from mailboxes in the city.

 

John F. Reynebeau, 69, a Little Chute businessman, on a four-day trip to Las Vegas, died in that city of an apparent heart attack shortly after arriving there Sunday. Reynebeau is the owner of Reynebeau Floral, Inc.  

 

March 10, 1972

Dave Anderson, Kaukauna's most sought-after college football prospect, has decided to attend the University of Wisconsin next fall.

 

This Sunday 300 Kaukauna Girl Scouts and their leaders will begin Girl Scout Week 1972 by attending masses and services at their respective churches. Throughout the week the scout troops will display their projects and badge work at some of the Kaukauna businesses.

 

March 17, 1972

Robert F. Main, 59, funeral services were held Tuesday at Holy Cross Catholic Church. Main was a long-time member of the Kaukauna Police Department.  Main, who died Sunday morning at the Kaukauna Community hospital had joined the Kaukauna Police Department in 1937 as a patrolman and motorcycle officer. He was promoted to sergeant in 1946 and to lieutenant in 1957. He retired on April 15, 1968, after 31 years of service with the department.

 

General support was indicated Wednesday evening for a joint community sewage system, which would use the Kaukauna wastewater treatment plant as the site for handling waste from the city along with Little Chute, Kimberly, and Combined Locks.

 

March 22, 1972

Senator Hubert Humphrey met with students as he left Kaukauna High School following his address there late Tuesday morning.

 

March 31, 1972

Maine Senator Edmund Muskie brought his campaign caravan through a snow-covered Fox Valley Wednesday. He spoke at Kimberly High School. Muskie disputed claims by President Richard Nixon that the war in southeast Asia is winding down and if elected president he would withdraw at once from Viet Nam.

Darwin F Milis, Blackwell Street, Kaukauna, an employee of Thilmany Pulp and Paper was fatally injured in an industrial accident Wednesday when he was caught between two rolls of paper on one of the mill’s paper machines.

Roger G. Vanden Heuvel (right), formerly of Kaukauna, received an honorable discharge at the Air Station in Pensacola, Florida. Vanden Heuvel served 21 years of service in the U.S. Navy.

Miss Jeanne M. Winter, Hennes Ct., Kaukauna, recently enlisted in the Navy. The new WAVE, currently a senior at Kaukauna High School, orders for active duty has been delayed until after she graduates from high school.

 

Navy seaman apprentice Bruce L. Rott, West Wisconsin Ave, has graduated from recruit training at the Naval Training Center in San Diego. A 1971 graduate of Kaukauna High School, he is scheduled to report to Hospital Corps School, San Diego, California.

Some Kaukauna students request the Kaukauna Ghost statue be removed from in front of 

Kaukauna High School

There is a school board meeting on Monday March 28, 2022.  at 5:30 at the high school.  Public participation is right away after the pledge of allegiance.  It is the only time the public is allowed to speak.  You do not have to stay for the rest of the meeting. 

 

You can call The Superintendent of Schools Mark Duerwaechter at 920-759-6112 (leave a message) as he is a little busy. 

Or email him duerwaechterm@kaukaunasd.org

Or email the president of the Board of Education

Kathy Brietzman breitzmank@kaukaunasd.org