Time Machine Trip to May 1973

 

Kaukauna Times – May 1973

By Lyle Hansen

May 4, 1973

 

Champions – Then and Now, Hall of Fame inductees and most valuable Members of this year’s KHS sports team proudly display their awards. Seated (l to r) are Leland Lambie, John Roberts, Emmett Kavanaugh, this year’s outstanding fan George Hatchell and Carl Giordana, who excepted the award for Calvin Spice who was unable to attend. The present champs are Rick Vanden Heuvel, Bob Peebles, Scott Lunda, Jerry Van Dyn Hoven, Reed Giordana, Dave Schoen, Dave Hash, Dave Vanderloop, and Joe Vandenberg.

Governor Patrick Lucy and Hammermill Paper Company president Albert F. Duval will be among the almost 50 dignitaries present at the dedication of the Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company's wastewater treatment plant this coming Wednesday. The Thilmany operation is the first wastewater treatment plant, and the first major construction project to be financed by community-arranged industrial revenue bonds.

Red Wing blackbirds are common to this area of the country, local naturalist tell you. But they are not common in the back room of the police stations. Sergeant Charles Arnold of the Kaukauna Police Department finally succeeded in getting rid of red winged blackbirds that have been inhabiting the backroom and a jail cell for the past few days. How the bird found its way into the place is a mystery. Arnold finally determined to get it used, a broom and drove the bird away to parts unknown. Gone is the jailbird.

Over 100 Kaukauna Boy Scouts from seven area troops will be guests of the Kaukauna Kiwanis Club at the annual Boy Scout outing to be held at Riverside Park tomorrow afternoon.

 

Gary Klarer, a senior at Kaukauna High School, has been named among Wisconsin’s top high school mathematics students after a statewide contest. Almost 25,000 students, representing 349 high schools, participated in the preliminary examination on February 15th.

May 11, 1973

Mill Meeting – Thilmany president’s Fred Herbolzheimer and Albert F. Duval met with Governor Patrick Lucey, center, at the new Thilmany water treatment plant.

Rev. and Mrs. Walter Tyson. The Reverend Tyson, who has pastored the local Assembly of God, on the corner of Main Ave. and 4th St. for the past 16 years, has resigned as pastor here and will deliver his farewell address on Sunday May 13^th.

May 30, 1973

The old bowling team gathered again. Whenever people gather to discuss the all-time great bowlers in Kaukauna history, the name Hank Minkebige will inevitably pop up. Minkebige, the “Kingpin of Kaukauna bowlers” earned his nickname through sheer merit. One of his dreams came true back in 1920 when he was one of five members of the Kaukauna team that won the state bowling championship. Left to right Paul Smith, Alan Peterson, Frank Hilgenberg, Hank Minkebige and Bill Johnson.

Tom Verhagen, Kaukauna, Vice President of Larry’s Markets, Inc. was recently appointed to the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Association of food dealers.