Time Machine Trip to February 1974

Kaukauna Times – February 1974

By Lyle Hansen 

February 6, 1974

Dan Wirth has just returned from a five-month course in cake and pastry baking at the Dunwoody Institute School of Baking in Minneapolis. Dan is the son of Harry Wirth, owner of the Hill Top Bakery and will join his Dad on the staff. Dan is a 1972 graduate of Kaukauna high school. 

 

More than 200 students have been reported absent from city schools and most of those have been attributed to the latest strain of flu, according to school officials and school nurse Mrs. Marilyn Yeager.

 

 

February 8, 1974

Kevin Lenius was the first-place winner of the Pinewood Derby in Holy Cross Cub Pack 31. The boys carve and decorate their cars from kit materials and race them on a track.

 

Eugene Haen, Kaukauna has been named “Farmer-Feeder of the Year” by Feedlot management in Minneapolis based national business magazine. The award is made each year on a national basis to the farmer selected by the publication for management excellence. Haen received an engraved trophy from the group. He normally has between 3200 and 3500 cattle at his Hillcrest Farms east of Kaukauna.

 

February 15, 1974

Jeff Van Dyn Hoven will be a Kaukauna delegation of one at the WIAA Sectional Wrestling tournament this Friday at Appleton East high school. Jeff was the only Kaukauna grappler to qualify for the regionals.

 

February 20, 1974

Last Saturday night the 1974 Kaukauna Ghosts cage squad made short work of Oshkosh North with a record shattering 108-80 performance. According to records, it was the first time any Kaukauna team reached the century mark.

 

February 22, 1974

Jay Christopherson, Kaukauna, has been awarded the Eagle Badge, the highest award in scouting. Jay is a member of Troop 104 of St. Aloysius parish.

Jay Wittman, Kaukauna, has been awarded the Eagle badge, the highest award in scouting. Jay is a member of Troop 104 of St. Aloysius parish.  

 

The era of police motorcycles in Kaukauna sputtered off into the past as a rural Kaukauna man took delivery on the city police department’s Harley-Davidson three-wheeler after winning in the bidding Tuesday evening. Robert C. Vandenberg submitted the bid of $665 for the old Harley.

A statement about continuing problems of heath care for all and continuing progress at Kaukauna’s Community Hospital was presented at the annual meeting of the members of the corporation. “State and federal controls and policies will make it hard to steer the ship” hospital administrator Roger Anderson told the organization.

Saying good-bye to something you love is never easy. That’s what five Kaukauna high school seniors must face after tonight’s game with Menasha. The fivesome, which includes.

       Reed Giordana                         Scott Lunda

           Bill Newhouse                         Dave Killian 

Jim Van De Hey. 

 

February 27, 1974

Postal rates will join the list of items which prices are rising. The new rate of 10 cents for first class letters will go in effect this Saturday according to postmaster Art Koehn. 

The Wisconsin Avenue bridge is going down. A crane was brought in to remove the old electric line towers. The steel removal of the bridge is to be completed by Monday. 

Kaukauna High School's Reed Giordana, for the second straight year, captured the scoring title in the Fox Valley Association basketball conference, scoring 282 points in the 14-game span of league play. Last year Giordana took the title with 290 points and that, in addition to his sophomore year points on varsity, gives him a total of 970 points, just 33 away from the KHS all-time scoring record, which is presently held by LeRoy Weyenberg with 1,003 points. With tournament action still remaining, Giordana has a legitimate shot at the record, but it appears that the Ghosts must win at least one game for him to do so, which would provide Giordana with two games instead of one to surpass the mark. Rarely does a single player total 30 or more points against a Kimberly team, the Ghosts' first opponent in the tournament.

Time Machine Trip to February 1964

 

Kaukauna Times – February 1964

By Lyle Hansen

February 5, 1964

KHS history was made at the Kaukauna High School gymnasium on Friday night as the Galloping Ghosts entertained the Truckers of Clintonville High School. The Kaus beat the Truckers by a 92-84 margin and the 176-point score was the highest total recorded for any high school game in which the Kaus were involved. It is also the highest total in the entire Mid-Eastern conference for the 1963-64 seasons.

 

Top scorers in the annual Recreation Dept. bowling event for girls and their mothers were announced by director James Gertz.

 

High series of 656 was hit by Betty and Violet Marzahl.

 

High two game individual series for the daughter was Jeanne Mullen with a 315.

 

High individual series for the mothers or partners went to Delores Ebben hitting a two game 418.

 

High game for daughter was Carol Schroeder with a 177.

 

There were 21 couples participating in the event.

Mrs. Anna Jane Diedrich bowling in the Friday Nite Ladies league fired a National Honors count of 618 on January 31.  

 

February 7, 1964

Thilmany Pulp & Paper Company reported record net sales in 1963 of 37,930,191 at the stockholders meeting February 6. This amounts to a 6.8% increase over 1962, which was the previous high record.

 

Eagle Scout Badges were presented to Dennis Veldman, Stanley Plzak, Lyle Geurts and Thomas Jansen of Boy Scout Troop 27 at a special Blue and Gold dinner conducted at the St. Mary’s school cafeteria on Sunday evening.

 

February 12, 1964

Arthur Kromer, Jr. was elected president of the Legion Post 41 in Kaukauna to succeed David Specht at a recent meeting at the club house.

 

February 14, 1964

Luedtke's 5c to $1 store of Kaukauna has opened their counterpart in Little Chute this week.

 

February 19, 1964

The roster for the Packer Cage game at Kaukauna has been announced. Ten or eleven Green Bay Packer regulars and possibly former Packers are expected to be on hand next Thursday for the special benefit exhibition game.  Lew Carpenter will take the job as manager of the Packer team. The other team members are Boyd Dowler, Urban Henry, Willie Davis, Henry Jordan, Bob Skoronski, Jerry Kramer, Fred Thurston, Bart Starr, Jesse Whittenton and Ray Nitschke. Former Packers are Gary Knafele, Tom Bettis and John Symank.  The event is sponsored by the Kaukauna Lions Club.

 

Funeral services for James E. Vandehey, 22, Kaukauna who was killed in a one car accident on County Truck JJ Sunday evening will be conducted today at Holy Cross Catholic Church.

 

Kaukauna has been selected as the host city for Region 6 for the 1964 Alice-in-Dairyland contest. The region is composed of 7 counties. Two winners will be chosen at the Kaukauna contest to compete with 20 others from the state.

 

Arthur H. Mongin, Jr., who has been selling Green Bay Packer football tickets in Kaukauna for thirty years from the Look Drug Stores agency, is transferring the Kaukauna list to the Packers. The letter, sent to the Packers list, 450 persons who hold 1,162 season tickets. “Since we handled the first tickets, we have seen this Agency grow from a mere 97 tickets a year to a point where we were handling 3 percent of the entire stadium” Mongin stated. 

 

February 21, 1964

Gene Ditter, retired plumber, was hired by Kaukauna's Common Council Tuesday night as the city's building, gas, and plumbing inspector. The position was created some time back by the council to fulfill the requirements of a Third-Class city in this inspection area.

 

There are 16 students on the straight “A” honor roll for the second nine weeks at KHS. Forty-one students made the average “A” list.

 

The junior class for this year’s Junior Prom theme will be “Camelot” according to class advisor Miss Constance Rye. The plans are now going forth on the decorations to coincide with the event. 

Three Bronze Palm Awards were presented to Patrick Hopfensperger, Dennis and Allen Plzak by their mothers. Mrs. James Hopfensperger and Mrs. Harriett Plzak.    

 

February 26, 1964

A crowd estimated at 1,000 was on hand Thursday evening as the Kaukauna “Lion-Trotters” played host to the Green Bay Packers All-Stars at the KHS gymnasium. The Packers won by the score 75-55 decision over the Lions. The entire affair was strictly for fun and the spectators loved every minute of it. At one junction Gary Knafele of the Packers, took exception to a call by Referee Mayor Joseph Bayorgeon hoisted Doty onto his shoulder and carried him off the floor. 

 

The chant by hundreds of Kaukauna high school partisans of “We want a hundred” resounded through the gym Friday evening midway in the final quarter. The Ghost fell short of that total but still managed to set a new high school scoring record as they blasted the Bulldogs by a 95-63 score. Prior to this season the Kaukauna high school basketball team seldom broke 80 but this year they succeeded in going over the 90 mark twice.

 

February 28, 1964

The center of attention at the first session of the annual Baby-Sitter’s Clinic last Saturday morning was little Molly Schuler serving as a model. Mrs. Joseph Simon, right, a registered nurse, demonstrated the care feeding and dressing the infant to the 118 future baby-sitters attending the clinic. From left are Susan DeGoey and Marcia Gerharz getting close-up instructions.  

     

Final preparations for what will undoubtedly be the first regional WIAA basketball tournament to be played in the City of Kaukauna are currently underway at the Kaukauna High School. The tournament will get started officially next Tuesday evening as the Ghosts and the Neenah Rockets meet.

 

“The Diary of Anne Frank” a story of the spirit of hope among those suffering during World War II will be presented for the last time Saturday Feb. 29 by the Kaukauna High School Dramatics Club. The play portrays the life of Anne Frank while she lived through the German occupation of Holland during the war.

 

The KHS Junior Varsity wrestlers. Left to right front row are Pat Milton, Len Hawley, George Gast, Scot Bay, and Allen Portman. Second row are Eugene VerVoort Manager, Bill Derricks, David Gremore, George Hagstrom, Carl Van Rooy and Joe Ribarchek. In back row, are Don Heinz, John Heinz, Jeff Fisher, Ronald Doering, Steve Kappell and David Krings.   

 

Mrs. David (Dede) Nagan of Kaukauna is one of the area’s outstanding baton twirlers. Dede performed at halftime at the Lions club sponsored basketball benefit program featuring members of the Green Bay Packers team and the Kaukauna recreation department.  

 

 

Razing operations on the former Legion Post 41 clubhouse adjacent to the Kaukauna Vocational school parking lot is under way. The building was the former city hall and fire department in the past.

 

A new American flag measuring 8 feet by 14 feet was presented to the Kaukauna high school for use in the gymnasium by Kaukauna Electric City Post 3319 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Pictured are Clarence Sullivan, left of the VFW and Guy Krumm, high school athletic director.

 

The KHS Varsity wrestling team is shown before their first home meet. In the front row are Robert Patschke, Dennis Coffey, Dennis Lemmens, Dave McCartney, and David Hardy. In the second row are Paul Bachhuber, Bruce McCabe, Robert Pflanzer, Tim Leatherbury and Marvin Van Wychen. In the back row are Coach Donald Jensen, Gene Collins, Phil Van Deurzen, Dan Bay and Allan Heindel.