Time Machine Trip to December 1952

 

Kaukauna Times - December 1952

By Lyle Hansen

December 3, 1952

Lloyd Mereness has announced the selling of his moving business. He purchased the trucking business on November 9, 1929, from O. L. Tuppee, just two days after the famous “Black Thursday” stock market crash.  Before the trucking business Lloyd played semi-pro baseball at Dale for side money.

Snow, sleds, and youngsters can cause accidents and some close calls. One such accident occurred at the intersection of Reaume and 4^th Street when several children sledding down the hill resulting in an automobile swerving to avoid hitting them and struck a parked car.  

Kaukauna basketball defeated New London by the score of 52-74. The Ghosts “Big Three” led the offensive maneuvers again. Ken Vanderloop led the attack with 16 points, followed by Joe Hinkens with 14 points and Dick Busse popped in 9 from his backcourt position.

December 5, 1952

Santa Claus is expected to arrive in the city about 3 o’clock tomorrow afternoon. He will be making his yearly pre-Christmas visit to Kaukauna in time to drop in on the annual Children’s Christmas party to held at the Rialto and Vaudette theaters. 

December 10, 1952

Acting Chief of Police Sylvester Vandenberg of Little Chute is shown checking the windshield wipers on the police car.  He said recent early winter snows and dangerous slippery streets may indicate that we’re in for a long winter with lots of snow and ice.

With the arrival of a vanguard of workmen to begin the razing of the front section of the Kaukauna vocational school building Tuesday and work on the new $47,000 addition to the high school got underway.

December 19, 1952

The 1952-53 Galloping Ghost Cage Team members are:

Top row: Coach Barribeau, Pat Kavanaugh. T. Hilgenberg, R. Jaeger, J Blumreich Dick Busse, Manager George Brenzel.  Bottom row: Ken Schumann, Paul Morton, Joe Hinkens, Jack Lehman, Ken Vanderloop, and Jim Otte.

Two Kaukauna girls are home after quitting their jobs with the “Skating Vanities” show. Miss Elaine Look and Miss Marge Stokes have been living out of a suitcase since December 27, 1951. The girls traveled around the USA and over the Atlantic by ship then back by plane after stops in all the glamour spots of Europe. Their plans for the future are as yet indefinite.

Work on the municipal building should be completed by the first of January, H. F. Weckwerth, manager of the Kaukauna Utility Commission announced yesterday.  The building has been undergoing a $30,000 “face lift” operation by the Oudenhoven Construction Company since early September.

December 24, 1952

Holy Angels church, Darboy, was the scene of double funeral services Saturday morning for John Wolf, Jr., 27, and his mother Mrs. John Wolf, Sr., 70, route 3 Kaukauna. John Wolf died Wednesday morning in a fire in the barn of the family farm east of Little Chute. Mrs. Wolf suffered a heart attack at her home Monday morning.

December 30, 1952

With but a few days left of 1952 people tend to pause a while to think back and recount the development of the past year. Unlike residents of other communities, Kaukauna won’t recall any tragic fires, hardships caused by the elements, and economic depressions; although we see that everybody did have a pretty busy and, in most cases, productive year.