Time Machine: Time Machine Trip to October 1975

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

October 1, 1975

Everyone will have a chance to meet the Congressman on Monday the 13^th when Rep. Robert Cornell will spend the day in Kaukauna.

October 3, 1975

Quarterback Reed Giordana is again leading the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point football team to national prominence in statistical rankings. Following the Pointers’ first three games, Giordana leads the nation in total offence and passing for individuals.

A Missouri construction worker fell to his death while working on a stack removal project at the Thilmany Upper mill. James William Houchins, 46, Paris, Mo. Died about noon at the Kaukauna Community Hospital.

October 8, 1975

Daniel J. Schmidt, 17, died as result of his bike missing a curve on Crooks Ave. early Saturday morning when he struck a tree.

October 10, 1975

The Times advertising director Glenn Hansen holds up the Third-place entry in the national contest Metro Newspaper Services of New York. The Times tied McPherson (Kan.) and the Dallas Times Herald.

A wage agreement between Kaukauna policemen and the city was ratified Tuesday night by the Common Council. The wage package agreed upon for officers’ amounts to a total of 15% raise for 1976.

October 15, 1975

Starting next Tuesday, the Kaukauna Times will advance publications by one day. The newspaper will be delivered to homes in the city on Tuesday and Thursday mornings.

October 17, 1975

The Kaukauna Board of Education has reached agreement on a new contract for the year 1976. The contract calls for a 6.5% increase of the old salary.

October 21, 1975

Mike Nelessen, the Pride of the Kaukauna Boxing Club, has been selected to a team that will represent the state in an amateur boxing tournament against a group of Illinois state champions in Chicago on Sunday Oct. 26.

Sophomore Todd Lunda, Kaukauna High School's ace golfer, fired a two-day total of 162 to finish fifth individually at the WIAA state golf meet at Lawsonia Golf Course near Ripon.

October 28, 1975

Somewhere under this mass of humanity is Kaukauna place kicker Steve Hardy, who was mobbed after kicking a game winning 22-yard field goal.

The Kaukauna Ghosts captured their first conference title in 14 years last Friday night, when Steve Hardy booted the pigskin through the uprights to give the Ghosts a 3-0 win over Oshkosh West in overtime, on a rain-soaked Titan Stadium field. The championship is shared with Menasha, as both the Ghosts and Bluejays went through conference play with 6-1 records, the Ghosts under first year head coach Bill Biekkola.

October 30, 1975

A break in at Rabideau TV and Appliance, the second within 10 days netted burglars a pair of color televisions, according to police. The burglars entered through a window in the rear of the building. Last week the burglars entered through a side window and took about $30 in change.

Ribbon cutting ceremony marked the opening of the enlarged supermarket Tuesday at the store located on Hy 96 between Kaukauna and Little Chute.

Journey’s end near for a major part of the new No.15 paper machine at Thilmany as the dryer drum, loaded on a river barge, approached Kaukauna. The trip started for the unit at Newport News, Va.

Son to Mr. and Mrs. John Hopfensperger