Time Machine: Time Machine Trip to June 1946

Kaukauna Times

By Lyle Hansen

June 5, 1946

Forty-eight Girl Scouts left Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 to spend a three-day vacation at Long lake near Wild Rose. Through the efforts of the Woman’s club the high school bus was chartered by Thilmany Pulp and Paper company to transport the girls to and from the cottage.

During May, 544 local children were inoculated against whooping cough at the health center. The drive was planned by City Nurse Ceil Flynn, fully endorsed by local physicians, and financed at a cost of several hundred dollars by the Woman's Club.

Six pupils of Holy Cross school attained perfect attendance records for the entire year. They are Eugene Ashauer, John Schuh, Sarah Brenzel, Helen Faust, Paul Bloch and Daniel Brenzel.

Veterans are back home.

Charles D. Gorchals

Leon G. Ashauer

Tom J. McCarty

Bernard S. Kulkoski

Francis Truyman

Mark T. Verbeten

James A. Phillips

James E. Pomeroy

Donald R. Stegeman

G. H. Meinert

John E. Weber

Clifford R. Johnson

Donald F. Vaubel

Arthur F. Meinert

Robert J. Cornelius

Robert O. Kitto

Richard J. Brown

Keith M. Ploetz

Wesley C. Wheaton

Richard Ristau

Seven boys who graduated from Kaukauna High School enlisted in the Navy the day after commencement and have begun boot training at Great Lakes, Illinois. The recruits are Donald R. Kuehl, John L. Brenzel, Raymond J. Schommer, Harvey A. Stegeman, David J. Nagan, Duane C. Buerth and James Francis Hopfensperger.

June 7, 1946

Joe Munes took his 5-foot alligator, Albert, to the Milwaukee Zoo on Monday because he had grown too large for comfort. For 17 years, Albert was a mild, gentle attraction for customers at Joe's filling stations, sleeping through six months of winter each year in a deep-water tank. Joe decided to part with him because children frequently teased the alligator to try and make him snap, and recent meat shortages and rationing made feeding him difficult.

Monsignor Fulton J. Sheen, a well-known radio figure, is delivering a lecture tomorrow at the South Park Junior High School in Oshkosh. A block of 100 tickets has been strictly reserved for Kaukauna residents. Attendees are cautioned not to travel to Oshkosh without a reserved seat.

June 12, 1946

About 200 people visited the Badger Tissue Mills pond on Sunday to view a group of newly hatched, fluffy baby ducks.

Captain Francis J. Grogan, Kaukauna, for whom nomination papers were filed for district attorney on the Democratic ticket, cannot be a Democratic candidate since he did not file his declaration of acceptance in person as required by law. The papers were filed by Grogan’s mother, due to the fact that he was in Tokyo acting in the capacity of a prosecutor of Japanese war criminals for the United States army. He was expected to land in the States, yesterday, however.

Wisconsin resident deaths from tuberculosis declined to 665 in 1945, the lowest toll on record. This is a far cry from the 2,500 or more deaths the state suffered annually four decades ago.

June 19, 1946

Parents of two youthful sharpshooters paid $44 in damages to the city electric department this week, when the boys were arrested by police for shooting insulators on electric power poles along the river road on county trunk Z between the baseball park and Rohan’s hill.

June 26, 1946

Mr. and Mrs. Emil Giordana had the pleasure of seeing their 12 children and their grandchildren together for the first time in eight years. Emil, Jr., of Fort Bragg, N. C., is home on a 30-day furlough.

Janet Hansen, 2½-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mervin Hansen, suffered cuts and bruises on the arms and legs and minor head injuries when she was struck by a car in front of her home about 5 o’clock. Police said the child ran from behind a parked car on the south side of Whitney Street.

"Poochie," a 75-pound German shepherd owned by the Ferd Meinert family, has returned home after serving three years in the Army K-9 corps. He arrived with an honorable discharge certificate and a discharge button.