Kaukauna Times
By Lyle Hansen
April 2, 1965
Joe Ludwig, right, one of the 160
semi-finalists competitors in the Bowl-O-Rama. He is pictured receiving a
souvenir bowling pin from the bowling star Tommy Tuttle.
The Dutch Mill Bowling team
of the Little Chute Heart of the Valley league won their second class “A” team
championship in a row in the 19th annual Kaukauna bowling
association City Championships held at the Sherwood and Hollandtown alleys.
There were 45 teams in the tournament.
April 7, 1965
KHS Volleyball team
members, back row: E. Szozda, R. Lemke, J. Skibba, E. Patschke, P. Kiffe, T.
Hanby. Front: D. O’Brien, M. Nussbam, R. Vernon, L. Verhagen, T. McCarty, T.
Vandrosek, Coach David Hash.
The Kaukauna Galloping
Ghost volleyball team closed out its 1965 season with a third-place finish in
the State sectional tournament at Kaukauna.
It was announced today
that fun groups were organized for the Kaukauna Jubilee Celebration. They have
organized the women’s “Bustlettes” and the gentlemen’s “Whiskered Gents”.
A person approaching
age 65 can hardly afford not to retire, Eugene E. Upton of the Social Security
administration told the Rotary club on Wednesday. “When you consider the
payments are tax free”. He said there is some misinformation about the security
of the funds. “Social Security funds are kept separate from other government
funds”.
Head Coach and General
Manager Vince Lombardi announced that the Packers will play the St. Louis
Cardinals in a preseason game in Green Bay Saturday September 11 in addition to
the Bishops Charity game on August 14 against the New York Giants.
The Outagamie County
Teachers College will conduct an open house for the general public tomorrow.
Tours and demonstrations will be given. The OCTC is a two-year college in
method teaching.
Bill Landreman fired a
244 to score the high individual game and Dan Van Abel fired a 615 series in
the Knights of Columbus league bowling league.
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Funeral Services were
held at St. Mary’s Catholic Church Tuesday morning for Miss Joyce Ann
Schwalenberg, 17, who drowned in a traffic accident Friday. Miss Schwalenberg
and Richard Vanderloop, 18, were on a double date Friday evening to shop for
dresses for the junior prom. Later they drove to the Thilmany mill parking lot
near the river. Joyce Ann was in the driver’s seat when they decided to
leave. Vanderloop reached over and
turned the key on, and the car started rolling forward. He told her to hit the
brake, but she stepped on the gas by mistake. The car ran over the embankment
and into the river landing in about four feet of water on the roof. Vanderloop
escaped through a broken window and made several attempts to get the girl out.
The fire department arrived on the scene and administered artificial
respiration after the car was removed by a wrecker.
April 9, 1965
The Kaukauna high
school baseball team started practice in a quest for their second consecutive
league championship under head coach Harry Wilson with eight veterans
returning. Thirty-five candidates turned
out for the 1965 squad.
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Thomas Busse, 14, Kaukauna scout represented
the Valley Boy Scouts Council at a meeting with Governor Warren Knowles in
Madison recently. Tom was one of 16 scouts from scout councils of Wisconsin
attending the “Report of Wisconsin” ceremony.
April 14, 1965
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Louis E. Faust of Kaukauna has
accepted a position with the Bank of Kaukauna it was announced Tuesday by
Clarence Zastrow, cashier.
Sgt. William Nagel of
the Kaukauna Police Dept. has a hobby of collecting old safes and repairing
them. He made a discovery Thursday of more than twenty thousand dollars in
mortgage bonds, deeds and cancelled checks which were in an old safe he
obtained sometime ago. The items were the property of Trinity Lutheran Church
Appleton. The dates on the items were from the 1940’s. He returned the items to
the church on Friday.
Miss Mary Margaret
DeClereq was elected president of the Kaukauna Business and Professional
Women’s club when the group chose new officers Monday evening. Aileen Koehler
is vice president, and Blanche Gerend will assume duties of recording
secretary.
Wisconsin paid
$5,705,500 in jobless benefits during March to workers covered by the state
unemployment compensation law.
April 16, 1965
The Kaukauna Lions club elected Phil Haas as
president for 1965. Vic Haen will be vice-president, Noel Diffatte second
vice-president and Leo Haen third vice-president.
April 21, 1965
Sp4 Mark E.
Bachhuber, Kaukauna, has completed a helicopter repair course at the Army
School at Fort Eustis, Va. The 21-year-old soldier is a 1962 high school
graduate and entered the Army in May of 1963.
April 23, 1965
Seven people were
injured at 6:40 Wednesday morning when a Chicago and Northwestern passenger
train collided with a 10-ton lowboy trailer carrying a 25-ton bulldozer at the
Rose Hill crossing between Kaukauna and Little Chute. The equipment was hung up on the boards on the
track. The driver disconnected the truck, pulling the rig and ran down the
track to flag down the train. Robert Holzman, the fireman on the train, was
most seriously injured when he jumped from the train before impact. He sustained a broken vertebra.
April 28, 1965
The site of the new
elementary and junior high school is on the south side of the city, bounded by
the future extensions of Ann Street and Sullivan Avenue, according to a report
by Kaukauna Superintendent of Schools, Julian Bichler. The proposed school
building is a one-story compact structure, with provisions made to expand by adding
two more wings and possibly an outdoor-indoor swimming pool. Architect's
working drawings and specifications are nearing completion, and it is expected
that construction will be started in June of this year and completed in
September of 1966.
Donald Green was named president of the
Kaukauna Jaycees Thursday evening. Burt McIntyre was elected first
vice-president; Thomas Thoma, second vice-president and Richard Mech,
secretary.
Bustlettes were showing the fashions that would
be worn during the Kaukauna 175th anniversary celebration this
summer. Modeling are Mrs. Melvin Schauer, Miss Mabel Learman, Mrs. Ronald
Kilgas, Mrs. Bernard Hruska and Mrs. Gerald Nytes.
The Kaukauna Elks club installed Tom Nytes as
Exalted Ruler for the year.
Officers and the board of directors were
elected at a recent meeting of the Rotary Club for the 1965-66 term. Gene Lang
was elected president with Clarence Theis, vice-president; Nick Bordini,
secretary and Luthar Kemp, treasurer.
Robert Promer set a new Kaukauna high school record
in the shot put of 47 feet 7 inches as the Ghost downed the Kimberly
Papermakers 71-47 in the meet Friday at Kaukauna.
April 30, 1965
A number of KHS
musicians will be participating in the state music festival at Oshkosh May 1.
The students trained by Directors Robert Lammont and Stephen Schultz have
previously received first place in class A competition at Fond du Lac.
The second annual “Guys
and Dolls Cocktail-Style Show” for charity, will be held at the Kaukauna Elks
Club. The fashions will be shown in a
picturesque setting with cocktails and hoer d’oeuvres served during the show.
Dave O’Brien started the Kaukauna baseball team
out on the right foot by pitching a no-hitter for the Ghosts in leading the
team over Kimberly by the score of 7-0 Wednesday at Kimberly.
The computer age has arrived at Thilmany
On or before May 1,
Thilmany Pulp and Paper Company will take the first steps into the electronic
data processing, according to Controller R.V. Allen. The IBM Systems 360, Model
30 will be coming in 1967 to replace the Mechanical calculator presently in use.
The new computer will be electronically operated. It is bigger, faster, more
sophisticated and able to solve greatly complex problems.
Evin Tennessens to Ovserve
Silver Anniversary Saturday
Mr. and Mrs, Evin Tennessen
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