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Aug 21, 2024, Page 12 Contributed by "The Clark Co. Press"
Extracted by Dolores (Mohr) Kenyon. Index of "Oldies" Articles |
Clark County News
August 24, 1944
Emil Podobnik has been signed up by Phillies
Emil Podobnik, pitcher of renown in Clark County, has been signed up by the Philadelphia Phillies. He will report for spring training next year. Emil’s work was observed last Sunday by a scout from the Phillies. It was a job with frills on it, for Emil struck out 11 men and carried the Loyal Club to a 6 to 4 victory over Wisconsin Rapids. In the 1944 season he chalked up 88 strikeouts in 83 innings, and the Loyal team has won six games out of nine played thus far.
Emil is 21 years of age. He has heightened his local reputation this year. He began by pitching for Willard, being a Willard product and working regularly on his father’s farm. Then he went on to Greenwood, twirling for the Greenwood team in the 1942 and 1943 seasons.
Last Sunday’s game was played at Wisconsin Rapids. On next Sunday the Loyal team has arranged a double header, to be played on the ground of the Loyal High School. The opposing team will be the Owen Redbirds. The Owen boys have beaten the Loyal Blackhawks twice this year, but the Blackhawks are favorites around Loyal, having a long record of victories on the home field.
Armin (Stub) Gerhardt, formerly of Neillsville, is expected to pitch the first game for Owen, while three former Neillsville players will be in the Loyal lineup: Harold Milbreit, Gene Christie and Henry Ott.
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Corn is 13 feet tall
A stalk of corn 13 feet and two inches high was being shown this week in front of the VanGorden elevator. It was grown by Jacob Schmidt, whose farm is near the fairgrounds. The first ear of corn on this stalk was so high that Mr. Schmidt, who is not a tall man, could barely reach it by stretching.
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Our boys with the colors
Sgt. and Mrs. Albert Koch left last Wednesday for their station at Salina, Kansas, after a two-week visit at the home of Mrs. Koch’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.R. Dubes, town of York. Sgt. Koch is a radio instructor at the army air base there, and Mrs. Koch does secretarial work at the base.
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Tec. Sgt. Glen Gerhardt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Gerhardt, town of Grant, who has been in service in the air corps for three years, is now at Truax Field, Madison, where he is doing office work.
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A.M.M. 2/c Orville Evanson returned to his navy duties at Norfolk, Va., early last week after spending 12 days here with his wife, and at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Evenson.
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Lt. (j.g.) Esther Lound left last Friday, after spending a short leave at the home of her sister, Mrs. Otto Zaeske. Lt. Lound, of the WAVES, received her officer’s training at Northampton, Mass., and for a time was an instructor there. She is now a member of the staff of the navy bureau of personnel.
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Pfc. Richard Van Gorden spent a short furlough here this week visiting the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Archie Van Gorden. Pfc. Van Gorden came to Neillsville from Camp Swift, Texas, and at the termination of his furlough reported for duty at Fort Benning, Ga., where he will receive more training in connection with communication and radio. Mr. and Mrs. Van Gorden met their son Thursday in Merrillan.
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August 12, 1954
Extra speed raid
A speed raid was under way Wednesday in southern Clark County. Four state police, together with the officers of Clark County, were out on patrol, working with the radar device.
The law enforcement agencies were gaited for the usual epidemic of arrests and fines, similar to those of the previous raid, which took place a few weeks ago.
These efforts are in line with the purpose of the state administration to reduce the toll of highway accidents. Frequent local checks are intended to keep drivers on notice that care must be held within legal limits.
This present raid will involve relatively heavy fines, as required by the latest legislation.
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Everett Starks will be honored at County Fair
Flagpole in his honor to be dedicated first evening of fair
A tribute to the late Everett Starks, for 26 years the friend and helper of young people at the Clark County Fair, will be paid at 7:30 Thursday evening. A flagpole has been erected in his honor in the 4-H section of the grounds, and it will be dedicated in a ceremony at 7:30 p.m. Thursday evening. It was the function of Mr. Starks to look after the 4-H arrangements and accommodations, a job which he cared for with great fidelity. It will be from deep feeling that his old associates will say Thursday evening that they miss him.
The outlook is that the 4-H camp will have more than the usual population. The improved quarters are an invitation, which brought 350 youngsters last year and which are expected to bring about 400 this year. This large population means a lively, but orderly, time in the 4-H sector.
On the first night in camp Thursday, the 4-H members will hear Thomas Reid talk about farm life in Scotland. He comes from a farm of 200 acres, owned by his father. The Reid’s keep Ayrshire cattle, more than 60 of them. Thomas is spending a few weeks at the Otto Horn farm, in the town of Longwood.
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Visitor drops to the rocks from bridge over Black River
Clement Jaeckel, 28, of Cudahy, Wis., took a vacation trip in Clark County, which was not on his schedule. This consisted of a drop of 15 or 20 feet from a bridge to the rocks below. The drop was taken last Saturday from the railroad bridge over Black River a little west of Withee and a little north of the highway bridge on Route 29.
Mr. Jaeckel was with his brother-in-law, Eugene Pawlak. They walked out on the bridge, with the idea of looking down into the water to see the fish. Not far away a stone crusher was making plenty of rackets.
Unheard by them, a Soo freight loomed up so close that they did not have time to run off the bridge. Mr. Pawlak stepped out on the side of the bridge, at a point where the ties were wider than standard. But Mr. Jaeckel was caught with no such convenient resource and without experience in such a situation. So, he tried to get out of the way by dropping between the ties and by hanging onto one of them. He hung on for a time but couldn’t stick it out. So, his hold failed, and he dropped on the rocks below.
Mr. Jaeckel was taken to the hospital at Stanley. He has sustained a broken rib and a cut on his left elbow. Later examination seemed to indicate a back injury of unknown seriousness.
Mr. Jaeckle was in the county on his vacation. He was a guest in the Pawlak home, his wife coming from the Pawlak family.
The accident was investigated by Sheriff Frank Dobes.
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This is a view of the Sanctuary of St. Mary’s Church, taken upon completion of the new decorations. The interior has been done in an artistic blending of many colors. The effect is beautiful. Father Leketas, the pastor, states that all members of the community are invited to visit the church and to enjoy with his parishioners the serene beauty of the new interior. (Clark County Press photo August 12, 1954)
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August 22, 1974
Warning: Stolen stove may explode
Be on the alert if you have recently purchased or have been offered a good buy on an antique wood stove. The stove is a “hot item” for several reasons, including the fact that it is stolen and that it contains up to “fifteen dynamite blasting caps.”
According to reports by Clark County deputy sheriff Albert Podevals, Ervin Buker, Rt. 1, Willard, notified police Monday that unknown individuals had entered a cabin belonging to him and had removed the stove and a gas refrigerator sometime Sunday. Buker reportedly checks the cabin daily.
Why the antique wood heater was used to store the blasting caps is unknown but if a fire is lit in the stove, a great danger of blast is expected, possibly causing injury or death to those who are near the stove.
According to sheriff’s department records, the stove is approximately three feet tall and carries a brand name of “Summersmith” or something similar.”
Anyone having information on the stove is asked to call their local police department or the Clark County sheriff’s office.
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Clues sought in hit and run death of Thorp boy
Funeral services were held Tuesday for a 16-year-old Thorp boy, Daniel Burzynski, who was killed in a hit and run accident early Saturday morning on a gravel road, approximately one mile north of Owen.
Clark County sheriff’s department personnel are still conducting the investigation and are seeking further clues in the death of Burzynski. State crime laboratories presently are analyzing the boy’s clothing and articles picked up near the body. Sheriff David Bertz states that when the laboratory report comes back, new leads are expected.
Burzynski, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Burzynski, Rt. 2, Thorp, was found on the gravel road by four Bloomer youths around 2:00 a.m. Saturday morning.
According to reports by Clark County Coroner Robert Lulloff, Burzynski was hit by an unknown vehicle at 12:47 a.m., the time that the boy’s watch stopped running. Burzynski was reported to have been hit by a car or truck and rolled underneath the vehicle, suffering injuries to the left hip and right side of the body. Internal injuries are believed to have caused death.
Funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m., Tuesday for Burzynski at St. Helwig’s Church in Thorp. Besides his parents, Burzynski is survived by a brother and sister, and will have been a junior student at Thorp high school this fall.
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Winners of the recent women’s slow-pitch softball tournament held at Neillsville were members of the Wildcat Inn team. Proudly showing their trophies were (front row, l to r) Donna McDonald, Rosie Opelt, Kay Jake, Sue Bredlau, and Mary Opelt; (back row, l to r) Roni Kaczor, Gayle Urban, Mary Kohls, Joanne Wagner, and Tessie Olson. (Press photo Aug. 22, 1974)
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August 24, 1994
DNR halts water test borings in Granton
The boring of test holes to determine the source of contamination affecting Granton’s drinking water has stopped and will not be continued.
That’s because the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is comfortable that one of the three potential sources located before borings were halted last month was the extent of the problem, a department hydrogeologist said Thursday.
“We feel comfortable that one of the three locations is the source,” Tim Baker of the DNR’s Black River Falls office said. All three boring locations within the village limits are the sites of currently active or past fuel storage tanks.
The DNR had hired PRC Environmental Management of Brookfield, Wis., earlier this year to determine just where the contaminant was coming from. In conducting its investigation, PRC drilled test holes into the ground near the three potential sources of the gasoline contaminant found in the village drinking water last year. Last month, Baker told village officials that the start of a number of additional borings was planned in August.
The plan for more test holes has been stopped, Baker told The Clark County Press Thursday. “We have determined the three potential sources,” he said, “but we’re not sure which one is the problem.” At one time, all three were businesses that sold unleaded gasoline, he said. “That’s what is showing up as the contaminant,” said Baker.
“I will still be actively involved,” Baker said, referring to the continuing monitoring of the situation by the DNR.
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