Kaukauna
Times
By Lyle Hansen
January
5, 1944
Miss Eileen Courtney
has received orders to report January 15 to Fort McCoy to take her basic
training in the Army Nursing Corps. Miss Courtney will be commissioned as a second
lieutenant. She is a graduate of Mercy school of nursing, Oshkosh.
The Kaukauna Boy Scouts
collected 36,830 pounds a paper, 12,700 pounds of iron, 1,250 pounds of rags
and 9,000 pounds of cans since the drive started in the city according to
Scoutmaster Wallace Mooney.
January
7, 1944
The cost per person of
operating the public schools in Kaukauna is lower than any city in Fox Valley
according to Mayor L. P. Nelson at the Common Council meeting Tuesday evening.
The cost last year' totaled $85,000 and the population being 7,321; the cost
per person is $116.00.
The fire started about 6:30 Thursday morning
in the basement of the Stroetz Food Market located at 216 Main Avenue. A
kerosene stove which was used to heat water exploded according to Henry Esler,
fire chief. Other structures in the area that sustained damage were Norman
Foxgrover Sr., barber shop, Marian Hauschel Tavern and the Kaukauna Times
building.
January 12. 1944
Boxing coach Fred Barribeau has issued a call for
the 1944 Kaukauna high school boxing squad to report starting Monday, January
17 at the high school gym. Barribeau expects about 48 boys to answer the first
call including nine returning lettermen.
The fourth war loan
drive and Outagamie County and Kaukauna will open Tuesday, January 8 and run
through February 15 according to announcement made by Andrew Parnell the County
financial committee chairman. Parnell stated the quota is $3,398,000. He also announced
the appointment of city attorney Harold F. McAndrews has the bond chairman for
Kaukauna replacing Jack Esler who has received a commission in the Navy and
will leave in the near future to begin basic training.
L F. Nelson was reelected president of the farmers and
merchants Bank at the annual meeting held Tuesday evening immediately following
the annual meeting of the stockholders. Other officers reelected by Julius J
Martens chairman of the board, H.W. Olm, executive vice president Peter Renn and
John Coppes vice presidents and John Vanderloop assistant cashier.
Mayor L.F. Nelson says he's received several
complaints that the older boys are playing crack the whip on the ice rink,
endangering the safety of youngsters. He said that he called the matter to the
attention of the police department. Chief of police James E McFadden was given
a letter requesting him to have officers make several stops at the rink each
evening so there is better supervision.
January
19, 1944
Second Lt. Urban Henry
Klister,
26, of Wrightstown, who was previously reported missing in action, has now been
reported killed in action in the European war area. Lt. Klister entered military
service May 16, 1941. He is the first resident of Wrightstown to be killed in
the war.
On recommendation of
the fire and police commission, the common Council Tuesday voted to purchase a
new 1944 Harley-Davidson police motorcycle had a net price of $263 providing
the war production Board grants the city permit to buy the motorcycle. The cost
of the motorcycle is $488.50, and the company will allow the city $225.50 on
its present motorcycle as a trade-in.
Mrs. Lawrence Green, Catherine Street, has
received word of her sister, Miss Dorethea Taverner, who is imprisoned in the
Philippines. This was the first time in over two years she had heard from her
sister who is a registered nurse. She says she has lost some weight but is in
good health. There are about 500 American and British civilians in the camp.
11 young men of the
second district of Outagamie County were accepted into service in the Armed
Forces in Milwaukee last week according to E. F. Rennicke chief clerk of the
local draft board. Some area men include
Terrence O. McLaughlin, Glen H. Meinert, Arthur F. Meinert, and Herbert P. Hermsen.
Petty Officer Second
Class Elmer Basten of this city has seen service as a Navy Seabee in three
major Solomon Island campaigns. Basten
who returned recently on a 30-day leave underwent Day and night bombing night
shelling by the Japanese fleet on Guadalcanal, but the blast and ammunition
dump was the worst of the lot. On two occasions he watched as more than 100
Japanese planes made daylight attacks on Henderson field. He witnessed aerial
dogfights, gave up some weight in favor of muscle and felt fortunate he didn’t
contract malaria.
Clintonville - Ice and snow need no longer
delay civilian performance of tasks that formerly could be accomplished only on
skis or snowshoes or with a dog team and sled. The FWD Company has announced
that as soon as the war ends, it will market the motor toboggan which can go
into areas previously almost inaccessible because of deep snow.
January 21, 1944
George A. Giesbers, 211
Park Street, has recently received the Purple Heart award on account of a wound
he received in action on July 29, 1918, while serving at Chateau Thierry. The
reason for the twenty-six-year wait was because the government discontinued the
award at the end of the First World War.
James E. McFadden, chief of police,
submitted a bill amounting to $318.31 to the common council this week which
represent the expense in connection with an operation to the left side of his
face which was caused by having his face hit by a drunk while taking him to the
police station. Chief McFadden says he feels that the city should pay the
expense because he was injured while in the line of duty working for the city.
January 26, 1944
Word was received by
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Jansen Boyd Avenue that their son Pvt. Gerald Jansen was
wounded in action December 25th in New Britain. Private Jansen
entered service in April 1943.
January 28, 1944
At the 57th
annual meeting held Tuesday night the directors of the Kaukauna Building and
Loan Association re-elected A.M. Schmalz to the office of president.
Fred Konrad was re-elected vice president.
Glen Miller Jack Peterson
Eight members of the senior class have left for the Armed Forces. Five left before school opened last fall. They are Glen Miller, Andrew Lambie Jack Leddy, Jack Peterson, and Vern Cornelius. The boys who left this semester are Robert George, Terrence McLaughlin, and Ervin Romenesko.
Staff Sgt. U. Te Vrucht, who is stationed at Fort Sill, Ok. has been spending a ten-day furlough with his aunt Mrs. Mary H. Penterman Sixth street.
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