Time Machine Trip to August 1973

 

Kaukauna Times – August 1973

By Lyle Hansen

August 1, 1973

Suspicions have been confirmed. Island Street is the most highly traveled street in the city with nearly 10,000 vehicles per day. The finding came from the state transportation department. The heavy traffic may be due to the closing of the Lawe Street bridge.

The Wisconsin State Patrol urged that motorists exercise great caution carrying cans of gasoline in their car trunks as result of the shortages of gasoline.  

 

August 10, 1973

Kaukauna’s director of public works, Robert Natrop, stated that the sludge coming from the city’s sewage treatment plant and sold to area farmers as fertilizer, is being shipped in a city-owned truck which is so dilapidated as to not even be worth the sludge inside it. 

Cool, Clear, Water. Students at Kaukauna High School were waiting in line for drinks of water as the temperatures reached over 90 degrees.

 

August 17, 1973

Lester Abel of Kaukauna has purchased the Black Insurance Agency on Wisconsin Avenue.  Abel has been an insurance agent for six years. The Black Insurance was operated by Merritt Black for 41 years until the time of his death.

 

The computer has come to the Kaukauna Electric and Water Utility, and the unit will eventually handle all the billing. Mrs. Pat Brockman sat at the console, while assistant officer manager Roger Leick, watched the machine run.

Jim Mertin, of Oshkosh, set a world record outboard speed record of 136.381 mph on the Fox River in Kaukauna Wednesday. The new record is 5 mph over the past record which was set in March of 1966.

 

August 24, 1973

Two area youths from the city’s north and southside were recently honored as Kaukauna’s All-Around best for their outstanding achievements in the KRD athletic program. John Koch, Southside boy and Ross Giordana, Northside boy. The awards were made by James Gertz, far left and Mayor Robert LaPlante, far right.  

Want to defray vacation costs? Miss Blanche Gerend returned from a tour of the West with several of her friends and a vial of gold flakes which she washed from a bucket full of gravel on a visit to a gold mine at Deadwood, S.D. The value of the gold – fifty cents. 

August 31, 1973

 

The Badger Northland new building will cover over 234,000 square feet and will be more than eight times larger than the present facility. The building will be located at the corner of Hy 55 and OO.

The city council will decide next Tuesday on whether or not to hire Telcom Engineering services as a consultant on proposed cable television for Kaukauna. 

The Modern Bar team came on strong to win the championship in men’s 12” League. Team members include the front row, Bruce McCabe, Romy Szozda, Tom Keil, Scott Robach and Don Baumgart. Back row, Denny Lauer, Dick Vandenberg, Gary Allwardt, Herb Vandenberg, sponsor: Tom Wulterkins coach, Rick Van Linn, manager, and Kerry Seiltz.