50 years ago November 16, 1972 Basketball Squad Opens Season Tonight At Home Against Thorp The Stanley-Boyd Orioles basketball squad will open the 1972-73 season with a non-conference game with the Thorp Cardinals. The teams will meet tonight, Thursday, at the Stanley- Boyd gym with the varsitygame beginning at 8:00p.m. A new head coach is taking over the reigns of the Orange and Black for this season. Don Kostelecky has assumed the head coaching position and is hoping the varsity can come up with a season such as the underclassmenhe has coached inthe past. He is building the squad around seven lettermen from a group of 21 who turned out. Returning letterman are Tim Caswell, Tim Steivang, Alan Kolstad, and Roger Zais, all seniors and junior John Dejung, Kirk Simon, and Mike Savina. Other members include David Leja, Jim Kowalczyk, Jerry Speicvh, Tom Baker, Bob Ziemba, Ted Tollefson, Don Tinjum, Dave Rixford, David Flaten, Paul Edwardson,Jeff Korn, Duane Kowalczyk, Bill Peterson andJoey Smith. The schedule is as follows: Thursday, Nov. 16, Thorp, home. Tuesday, Nov. 21 Gilman, away. Tuesday, Nov. 28, Greenwood, away. Friday, Dec. 1, Cornell, home Tuesday, Dec. 5, Owen-Withee,away Friday, Dec. 8, Fall Creek, home 60 years ago November 22, 1962 1942 Boyd high school band on front page, without names. $700,000 School Budget Approved Clara Smith funeral at St. Anne’s. Born February 10, 1887 in Yuba, Richland County to Peter and Tina Peterson. Came to Thorp township as a young girl. MarriedFrank Smith in 1907. Preceded in death by husband and one son, a soldier in World War II. Special evening mass Sunday November 25 at Junction. 70 years ago November 13, 1952 Help Fight TB Christmas Seal Sale Opens November 17 The 1952 Christmas Seal Sale will open on November 17. Exactly 127 million Seals will be distributed for sale throughout Wisconsin, according to Miss Lorraine Noll, director of the Christmas Seal sale for the WisconsinAnti-TuberculosisAssociation. Wisconsin sanatoriums in 1951 cared for 3,627 tuberculosispatients. Obituaries: Edward J. Olson. Born at Porter’s Millls April 2, 1886 to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Olson, Came to Stanley in 1899, where he lived until moving to Klamath Falls, Oregon in 1929. Elton Bergevin of Huron dies at Council Bluffs, Iowa of carbon monoxide poisoning “while resting in the cab of his truck.” Born March 6, 1907 at Huron. Married to Gladys Brown at Stillwater in 1930. Preceded in death by parents, survived by wife, four daughters, and two sons. The roof of the Maves Memorial Pavillion is completed with asphalt shingles. 80 Years ago November 20, 1942 Cattails source of revenue to Wisconsin farmers Farmers near Ashippun are collecting large returns from harvesting cattails from hitherto worthless lands. A newly developed process converts the cattails into a “down or filling material, which is very soft and waterproof, and is being used for mattress filling and furniture stuffing, life preservers and in a large number of toys. A plant has been started at Asshippun for processing the cattails and farmers are planting the seed on swamp lands for a regular crop which is said to yield good returns. It is predicted that the cattail crop will becomeimportant. The road to victory is paved with scrap Now is the time to bring in your scrap iron, metals, rags, rubber, hides, and other salvage materials! Highest prices paid! Call us and we will collect if there is a sufficientamount. Theo Wallach Stanley, Wisconsin: Phone 54 Cornell, Wisconsin: Phone 79 100 years ago November 30, 1922 Saw mills at Thorp destroyedby fire A fire discovered at 3:45 a.m. consumes the Colby Bros. sawmill at Thorp, located on a 1900 Sanborn Fire Insurance map in the northeast corner of Thorpe and School Streets. Notes include “No watchman,” with proprietor living on premises and “no heat, fuel, or wood.” Kerosene lanterns and live steam jet on first floor. No decision on whether to rebuild as of press time. 120 years ago November 22, 1902 A woman named Mary Cotter is found dead in building ruins at Fond du Lac after fire. Death was from suffocation, with uncertainty as to how the woman had come to be in the building. The building was locked when found to be on fire. Foul play suspected. Find A Grave Memorial ID 150172809. At Manitowoc—A man attempts to kidnap someone after presenting himself as the assistant to a tending physician, leaving medicine found to contain strong opiates. No trace of the man is found. November 15, 1902 Trained Police Dogs The city of Ghent has a number of police dogs, which the officers use at night and which are intelligently trained. They can not only leap high walls, but can swim with ease in light or darkness.