Kaukauna Times
By Lyle Hansen KAHS
May 1, 1946
Dave Hartjes, manager of the Hartjes Electric
company, who has been in business and Little Chute and Kaukauna for the past 13
years is holding a grand opening this morning for his new store and new
building at 130 East 2nd St.
Mrs. Frederica Schifelbein, 99, Kaukauna’s
oldest resident, headed a family of five generations, died at 10:00 Monday
morning in Appleton after a long illness. She was born July 21, 1846, in
Germany and came to America in 1883 moving directly to a farm in the Town of
Kaukauna.
Despite cold and windy weather which was far from ideal track conditions, 2 records were broken in the annual Orange and Black track meet held on the Kaukauna tack Thursday and Friday, the Orange team emerged victorious by winning the last event, the relay. This year's captain, Francis Brewster, set a new mark in the mile 5 minutes and two seconds. Big Pat Flanagan, class B state shotput champion, threw the ball a distance of 45 feet, 5 inches, also a new card.
May 3, 1946
Joseph T. Sadlier, who served as an
auditor and accountant for a number of businesses in and out of Kaukauna during
the last 20 years, has returned to the city after a four year absence to become
the campaign manager of the Kaukauna Community Hospital fund committee.
May 10, 1946
Over 50 veterans of World War II are now
enrolled in the Kaukauna Vocational school as apprentices and taking on the job
training. The Vocational school is assisting veterans and the employers and in
executing the proper papers and arranging for the school attendance of the
trainees.
Wiggie’s won the championship in the Kaukauna
Knights of Columbus bowling league. Left to right, Henry Minkebige, Leo Coffey,
Lawrence Gerend and Alois Mayer with Norman Weigman seated.
May 15, 1946
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Japan’s ex-premier Tojo
and his fellow defendants eat lunch GI style, seated at a long bench.
The Kaukauna High school track squad took the
first conference championship in the history of the school when it defeated 7
other schools in the conference meet held at the Neenah track on Saturday
afternoon. Pat Flangan broke the conference record in the shot put, heaving the
12-pound ball 45 feet, 6 1/2 inches. Phil Haas garnered a first in the low
hurdles and seconds in the broad jump and high hurdles to lead the scores of
the day with 13 points.
The Kaukauna Merchants got off to a flying
start in 1946 race for the Fox River Valley pennant when they overwhelmed a
highly touted Little Chute team by the score of 13 to 5 at the Kaukauna
ballpark on Sunday. Cal Spice hit a home run in the big 6th inning.
The city of Kaukauna will send about 62 members of its school patrol units to the third Wisconsin School Safety Patrol Congress May 17-18 held at Wisconsin Dells.
For the first time since Wisconsin began
recording deaths, less than 100 mothers died in childbirth during the year.
Just a generation ago four times as many mothers were dying in childbirth.
Old Dobbin and his kind now number 385,000 on
Wisconsin farms the smallest population at 65 years. More and more work is now done by tractors
and trucks.
May 17, 1946
V-E Day Parade – Frankfurt, Germany Four
thousand American troops parading. Shabbily clad German civilians watched the
parade in stony silence.
When Electric City Post
3319, Veterans of Foreign Wars, met Tuesday evening, five new members were
mustered in. The post voted to donate a new flag for the city's honor roll and
to make a donation to the American Legion auxiliary poppy fund.
A fire of unknown origin completely destroyed
the coal and wood yard of N. E.
Lummerding, located on West 3rd St. The blaze was discovered about 4:00
Thursday afternoon before the firemen arrived the wooden structure was ablaze
and the beyond hope for saving them.
Kaukauna's Phil Zwick,
the "Wisconsin Flash" seems to never grow old, defeating Marion
Rotten, the state featherweight champion via a knockout in the third round of
their bout in Oshkosh. Zwick came out of retirement for the fight and looked as
impressive as ever in doing away with his opponent.
May 22, 1946
Plans for a night high school in the summer for
veterans of Kaukauna, Kimberly and Appleton were laid last week by Paul E.
Little, Kaukauna high school principal. The three high schools involved will
cooperate in giving veterans of these towns who wish to complete their credit
toward high school diplomas an opportunity to do so.
L. F. Nelson, former mayor of Kaukauna, announced
that he will be a candidate for the office of Lieutenant governor on the
Democratic ticket.
May 24, 1946
119 seniors will graduate from Kaukauna high
school this week.
Kaukauna high school's first spring
registration day for incoming freshmen was well attended by 8th graders from
the vicinity according to a report by Principal Paul Little. Of the number
there were 67 boys and 66 girls.
The third issue of Thilco News was delivered to
mill employees this week. This issue was dedicated to four former employees who
were killed in service during the war, the men commemorated are Richard LaRock,
Kenneth Arts and Harvey J. Kerrigan all killed in European theater and Melvin
Courtney, who died in an air crash in the United States.
May 29, 1946
Pat Flanagan Phil Haas Cliff Hinkens
Defending state
champion and record holder Pat Flanagan of Kaukauna successfully defended his
state title in the shot put, and in record breaking style, throwing the shot
50'2" for his second straight Class B title, Saturday, at the state track
and field meet in Madison. Flanagan
complemented that performance with a third-place finish in the discus throw.
Kaukauna had two other placers at state in Phil Haas and Cliff Hinkens. Haas
captured fourth place in 120-yard hurdles, while Hinkens, a freshman, secured
fifth in the mile run. All three athletes are underclassmen and will return
next year.
Judge Joseph R. McCarthy of Appleton declared
on Monday that by destroying the industrial heart of Europe we are sowing the
seeds of communism there. When he spoke to the Knights of Columbus at the
Wisconsin Ave. club rooms. McCarthy is a candidate for the Republican
nomination for senator from Wisconsin. “Europe is starving because the farmers
cannot get machinery with which to work the land.” He stated.
Dr. George A. Behnke, recently discharged from the army, will take up the practice of medicine in Kaukauna in association with doctors C. D. and George Boyd at their offices at 240 W Wisconsin Ave. announced Tuesday.
Honorable
Discharged
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Eugene Lange - Navy
Robert
O. Newlin - Navy
Kenneth
A. Pratt – Navy
Gene
Driessen - Navy
Earl
M. O’Connor - Navy
Robert
D. Thon - Navy
Allan
L. Johnson - Navy
Robert
Boebel - Navy
R. N.
Van Wychen – Navy
Terrence
McLaughlin - Navy
Francis
Giordana - Navy
Daughter was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Schmidt
Son was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Gerald Nackers
Daughter was born to
Mr. and Mrs. Orville Krabbe
Daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Bloch
Daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth
Luckow
Son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ted Gloudemans
Daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius
Vander Pas
Daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Clifton
Coffey
Daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kersten
Daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sief
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