Douglas County Past: 'Tuffy' Leemans puts national lens on Allouez

Nov. 4—Nov. 3, 1933

Siegel boys Echo managers

Ben Siegel, senior student, Thursday was named business manager for the Echo, Central high school annual, and his brother, Bernard, was named assistant business manager.

The following students were named solicitors: Elaine Anderson, Robert Bishop, Ellen Erkilla, Robert Gill, Eva Goldberg, Doris Hedburg, Eleanor Howard, James Jewett, Elaine Kaggerud, Arnold Kaner, Pearl Krans, Clifford Luzar, Laurel O'Brien, Clifford Olson, Jeannette Oland, Lorraine Peterson, Claire Peterson, Marie Polin, Ione Rosberg, Myrtle Stke, Lorraine Strum, Irwin Tanning, ethel Titch, Bernard Walter, Eleanor Wickman and Eva Walk.

Lake Nebagamon farmer leaves Douglas County for first time

When J.D. Roe, 71, Lake Nebagamon, attended the opening sessions of the Wisconsin Farmers union convention in Madison Thursday, it was the first time Mr. Roe had been out of Douglas county, where he has been a farmer all his life.

Other Douglas county farmers attending the union convention are A.N. Young, Middle River, president of the state union; Elmer Peterson, Poplar, county president; P.J. Fitzgerald, South Range, president of the Parkland local; Theodore DeJung, Foxboro; J.B. Thompson, Station B; Anton Levine, hawthorne; H.D. Ward, Solon Springs; Henry Hendrickson, Amnicon; Iver Palm, Lakeside; George Jones, Poplar and State Senator Philip E. Nelson, Town of Cloverland.

Up and down the street

Newest fad at the Century of Progress is buying a baby turtle and mailing it to a friend or relative. Carl Lovdahl got one in the mail Friday from his sister. It is less than three inches long and about one-sixth that high. On its shell is printed "souvenir of Century of Progress." It was mailed in a small cardboard box.

What, no extra points?

Alphonse "Tuffy" Leemans, pride of Allouez, was off form last Saturday, when the George Washington university football team defeated West Virginia Wesleyan 26 to 0.

All the former East high star did was run 97 yards for a touchdown on the opening kickoff, gallop 71 yards through a broken field for another touchdown in the same period, and register another score in the second quarter with a 31-yard run.

Leemans was also responsible for the other touchdown, passing 37 yards to an end to put the ball in position for the final tally of the game. Leemans, who is only a sophomore at G.W., gained 181 1/2 yards from scrimmage in 17 tries, nearly 11 yards a crack, and that does not include his 97-yard run from kickoff.

Scribes in the national capital are making much of the fact that Leemans hails from Allouez, which was also the stamping grounds of Ernie Nevers, Stanford's all-time all-American, who was a former all-around star for Superior Central.

Nov. 3, 1998

Library Internet access popular

The Superior Public library is covering new territory with the arrival of free Internet access. The library went "live" mid-October and the computers have been in full use since then.

Library Director Janet Ronnback said the library has hoped for Internet access for a long time.

The library has five computers in the Adult Area and one in the Children's Area. One of the computers to be used by adults has been modified for visually impaired or handicapped people.

Julie Zachau, Adult Services librarian said a magnified screen is one of the computer's adaptations.

Zachau said people can come in with their own floppy disk, but it must be compatible to the computer's software.

Nov. 4, 1933

Amnicon man arrives home to find clothes, household goods gone

Somebody has outfitted himself and his home at the expense of Al Powers who lives about a half mile south of Four Corners.

While Powers was away from his home Friday thieves broke into his home and garage and literally "cleaned him out." They took everything from snow shoes to clothes pins.

Deputies investigating for the sheriff's office have been unable to get any information which might lead to the arrest of the robber.

Nov. 4, 1989

Community theater stages play at local restaurant

The Port-Town Part-Time Players will be staging a production next weekend in downtown Superior, complete with dinner. The community theater will stage the Frederick Knott thriller "Wait Until Dark" Nov. 12-15 at the Northern Lights Restaurant and Lounge, 1201 Tower Ave.

The cast includes Kathy Laakso as Suzy, Vern Jordan as Roat, Ted Pellman as Mike, Jerry Carlson as Carlino, Alan Zeppa as Same, Jasmine Zeppa as Gloria and Phil Smith as policeman.

Young voters get taste of politics

Roughly 144 young voters got an experience of what the right to vote is really about at Bryant Elementary School. The fourth-graders in Mary Brand's class exercised their yet premature right to vote by participating in a mock election held in conjunction with the general election on Tuesday.

"Voting is probably the second most important thing government can do with the people," said junior voter James Pederson, 9, who helped man the voter's registration table.

Pederson and classmates Sarah Erickson and Nathan Farmer, both 9, were in charge of checking off student names and giving them a number that signified their time to vote.

"We are learning (how to vote) now so we will know how to do it when we've gotten older," Farmer said.

Nov. 6, 1998

Nine Tigers earn HON conference honors

The success that the Northwestern Tigers football team enjoyed on the field this season has helped them land nine players on the recently released 1998 Heart O' North Conference All-Conference Football team.

Named to the first team on offense for Northwestern were junior guard Cody Fechtelkotter and junior running back Lukas Jipson, while named to the first team on defense were senior linebacker Tony Carnahan, senior end Steve Osberg and senior defensive back Bryan Hannula.

Other Tigers honored and named to the honorable mention squad are senior Matt Mackey at offensive end, senior Ryan Scherz at running back, and senior linebackers Kevin Jones and Chad Wedan.

Generosity of many makes life easier for one

Last July, Brand Bourque was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig's disease, a degenerative muscular disease. For 24 years Bourque had been a vivid staff member at SSHS as the resident school psychologist. The disease attacked swiftly, and Bourque was required to take leave of his job this past fall.

But Bourque was faced with yet another disheartening possibility — the possibility that he may have to leave his home. Bourque was in need of a wheelchair ramp to access his split level home, but could not find the funding for such an extensive ramp that would reach to the second floor of the house.

The SSHS students in the Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA) along with their teacher, Dale VanErt, took it upon themselves to use what they had learned in order to give something back to their former school psychologist — the much needed ramp.

The students began working on the ramp during the second week of school and on Thursday they brought it to Bourque's home.

Articles and pictures courtesy of retired librarian Judy Aunet with Superior Public Library.