Time Machine Trip to September 1942

 Kaukauna Times - September 1942

By Lyle Hansen

September 2, 1942

Mr. and Mrs. Peter Biersteker, Little Chute have four sons in the Armed Services. Left to right are Pfc. Neil, Sergeant Maurice, Mr. Peter Biersteker, and Lieutenant Nick Biersteker. Not pictured is Joseph Biersteker who is awaiting assignment in the Air Corps.

This United States navy photo shows the marines landing on a beach of a Solomon islands in the South Pacific.

Three boy scout troops and a girl scout troop will be contacting ever home in the city to collect scrap metals.  

 

September 4, 1942

Ben G. Prugh of Kaukauna scored a hole-in-one on the seventeenth hole at Butte des Morts golf club. Prugh said he was going to quit the game because he finally had it solved. However, he changed his mind and continued on to the next hole.

Approximately 2000 kids will dust off their books for the opening of the school year next week.

September 9, 1942

The Labor day picnic celebration help here Sunday and Monday at La Follette Park was a huge success. Thousands flocked to the park each day.

 

September 11, 1942

The four golfers who participated in the finals of the Lion-sponsored golf tournament over the weekend. Left to right James Strick, consolation champ, John Andrejeski, winner of the championship, Harold Welhouse who lost to Andrejeski and Robert Kilgas, who played Strick for the consolation title.  

Richard Wandell, East Ninth Street and William Dryer, East Tenth Street were awarded the Eagle Scout badge, highest award given scouts, at a ceremony held at Epworth home by the Rotary Troop No. 20 Tuesday evening. 

Mayor L. F. Nelson, in a brief discussion at the common council, Tuesday evening, expressed dissatisfaction of the treatment received by the city accorded by the Green Bay and Mississippi Canal company. The mayor stated he had telephoned the company some time ago concerning the lease on some property on Dodge Street and followed up with a letter.  “I had asked them to donate 100 acres of woodland below the city ballpark for use by the boy scouts but never received a response from them. This is very poor business practice on their part.”

The war production board released 50,000 of the refrigerators which have been frozen in the hands of dealers and distributors since February 14 for sale to the public after finding that they were not needed for “essential” purposes.

 

September 16, 1942

Employees of Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company purchased $13,425 worth of war-saving bonds through the Thilmany Credit Union during the month of August. Winn Hess, president of the Credit Union reports.

Mrs. Richard Welter, 30, died at St. Elizabeth’s hospital Tuesday afternoon, the result of burns suffered when a gasoline stove exploded in the basement of her home on Island Street Monday.

Irene B. Peters, route 3 Kaukauna, was sworn into the Women’s Auxiliary Army corps at Milwaukee, Friday. She is the first girl from this area to be admitted to the WAAC. 

 

September 18, 1942

Dr. W. C. Sullivan of Kaukauna won the Democratic nomination for governor of Wisconsin in Tuesday’s primary election.

September 23, 1942

The second stage practice blackout held in Kaukauna Thursday evening, along with the county-wide blackout, was a complete success. Violations were few and non-intentional with persons forgetting to turn out lights, doing so immediately upon notification of the air raid wardens. The county-wide blackout was termed one of the most effective blackouts in the state by a civilian defense council official. Total cooperation in these practice blackouts is necessary; the safety of the people in this section being on the line if a real blackout was made necessary by approaching bombers.

 

Coach Paul Little’s Kaukauna High School eleven open the 1942 grid season at New London Monday with a 13 to 0 win over the Bulldogs. Jack Roberts and Frank Giordana furnished the rain-soaked fans with two spectacular runs for the Kaw scores.

 

September 30, 1942

Compiegne, France – Three able-bodied French workers must go to Germany to work in order that one wounded French prisoner be released. Pictured are the wounded prisoners being returned to France from Germany. 

All residents of Kaukauna and the town of Buchanan, who have not yet registered for citizen’s defense corps, are asked to do so now by L. C. Smith commander of Kaukauna Buchanan Corps.

Safety patrols have been organized at Kaukauna schools. Donald Mangold has been named captain of the patrol at Holy Cross school and Daniel Cornelius is captain of the safety patrol at Park school.