15 Years Ago October 27, 2005

Alternative education program being studied by school district Parochial students, home schoolers would get access to curriculum, programs and facilities The Stanley-Boyd School District will be reaching out.

The district’s Board of Education heard a proposal last Tuesday to start reaching out to students who are either educated elsewhere or at home.

Teacher Corey Klecker is working on a program that will offer curriculum, staff and facility access to the many children who don’t attend Stanley-Boyd School District facilities…The school board gave the committee’s work its informal blessing. Member Tammy Tom-Steinmetz has been attending committee meetings, and she likes the direction the district is taking.

“We’re a school. We’re here to educate all the students in the Stanley-Boyd School District,” she said… Board president Steve Hinke told the committee to proceed with its work and report back to the board periodically.

“Fire the cannon,” he said.

Making a Difference!

(photo) Stanley-Boyd international exchange students receive thanks from John Gospodar. From left are Christina Hesse from Germany, Zeina Thawateh from Jordan, Gospodar, Marija Serafimouska from Macedonia and Lars Posiadlo from Germany.

20 Years Ago October 19, 2000

Substitute Teachers Receive Raise; Willow Trees To Go Timeline Established For Hiring New S-B Area Superintendent The Stanley-Boyd Board of Education was called to order on Tuesday, October 17 by President Diane Tiry at the Community Room in Stanley- Boyd High School.

Roll call was taken and all members were present with the exception of board member Dale Abrahamson. The minutes of the September Board meeting were approved.

The Board unanimously voted to raise substitute teachers wages from $70 per day to $90 per day to remain competitive with neighboring school districts…A clump of Willow trees next to the bus garage are to be removed by Teach Tree Trimmers. The five trees, three live and two dead, will be cut down level to the ground and covered with fill. The cost for the removal will be $840.

Teachers, along with bus drivers, cooks, clerical assistants, custodians and aides, are to be recognized with a free lunch during American Education Week, which is November 12-18. Cakes will be ordered and will be distributed to the appropriate staff areas… Boyd-Stanley Catholic Youth Group Sponsors Food Drive The Boyd-Stanley Catholic Youth group “Venture” will sponsor a food drive entitled “Love Your Neighbor,” from October 23-29.

Non-perishable food donations may be dropped off at the Holy Family or Sacred Heart-St. Joseph parish offices. Donations will be used for the local food pantry.

40 Years Ago October 16, 1980

Orioles Humble Neillsville Warriors, 20-7 Turnovers Cripple Strong Visitor’s Offense (four photos) An unidentified Stanley-Boyd receiver just loses a ball off his fingertips. Staff photo.

QB Rick Hodowanic is tackled on what appears a keeper play off left tackle. Mark Natzke and two Oriole linesmen are pictured on the right. Staff photo.

With guard Jay Thorpe leading the way, halfback Mark Bernklau advances through the Neillsville line. Bernklau gained 50 yards Friday night at Chapman Park. Staff photo.

Greg Seichter and an unidentified Stanley-Boyd defender rush QB Dough Oldham on one of Neillsville’s pass plays Friday night. S-B’s Don Sorenson keeps his eye on the ball. Stanley-Boyd’s defense came up with some key plans to protect its win over the Warriors. Staff photo.

….Even though temperatures on the 25, field were chilled by a stiff unrelenting wind, the Orioles went right to work and recovered a Neillsville fumble on the first play of the game. With the ball on the Neillsville 25, three successive rushes by Mark Bernklau drove the ball down to the 10. But an offsides penalty on S-B had home fans worried the Oriole’s momentum would be stopped.

Not to worry. A nice Rick Hodowanic fake set up a 10 yard saunter by Tim Zais to pay dirt. Only two minutes into the game, Jay Thorpe’s point after made it 7-0, Stanley- Boyd.

50 Years Ago October 15, 1970

AD: Silver Dollar Now Serving Food Six Nights a Week 5:00 p.m. until 11:30 p.m. (excluding Tuesdays) STARTING THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 11 —Featuring—Finger Lickin Southern Fried Chicken – Fish – Steaks – Ribs – Seafood 3 miles south and 2 miles east of Thorp, Wisconsin Phone 669-**** (see Facebook for more contemporary offerings) Tom and Darla Kuester Dean Price’s Barn Destroyed In Saturday Morning Blaze (photos) About 5:00 a.m. Saturday morning the large 214 foot dairy barn on the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Price about 1 ½ miles west of Boyd was completed destroyed by fire. the Boyd Fire Department was called and also the Cadott Fire Department… The fire was discovered by daughter, Debra.

60 Years Ago THE BOYD BEE October 28, 1960

Warn against damage to mailboxes With Halloween only a short time off the Post Office Department today issued a warning that it is a federal offense to willfully or maliciously injure, tear down or destroy any receptacle used for the receipt or delivery of mail.

IN THE PAST, rural mail boxes have been frequent targets of Halloween pranksters.

October 21, 1960 A Wedding! (photo) Miss Antoinette Dupey to Kenneth E. Kenealy on Saturday October 1 at St. Rose of Lima in Cadott.

Several area youths enrolled at River Falls Among the students enrolled at Wisconsin State College at River Falls this fall and helping the college break all previous attendance records are seven from the Cadott area. They are: Theodore Falkenberg, John Huffcutt, Laura Marek, Emery Peterson, and James Raether of Cadott; D. Doers of Boyd; and William Weimer of Jim Falls. More than 1430 students were enrolled last week. Before this year, the highest enrollment at River Falls was 1286 in the fall of 1958.

Be careful of trade school offers Several reports have been received recently of individuals soliciting students in this area for unapproved, and in some cases non-existent trade schools, according to R. L. Oliver, Stanley high school guidance counselor.

EXTREME care should be exercised in the selection of a trade or vocational school. The individual, for his own protection, should check with the local high school before a payment of any kind is made to a school representative.

63 Years Ago* September 25, 1959

In the first deployment of federal troops to the South since Reconstruction, President Dwight Eisenhower today activated 1,000 paratroopers of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division to uphold Brown v. Board of Education and federalized the Arkansas National Guard, after mob resistance to blackwhite integration prevented nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. Governor Orval Faubus had surrounded Central High School with Guard troops to prevent the student’s entrance.

66 Years Five Months Ago* May 17, 1954

Ruling today in a unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court overturned the “separate but equal” doctrine established in Plessy v. Ferguson as it relates to education. Holding that separate educational facilities led to a sense of inferiority in African-American children, the court led by Chief Justice Earl Warren overcame internal opposition, including from a justice who felt segregation protected the black population in a hostile society.

70 Years Ago October 19, 1950

Hunting Accident Fatal To Former Stanley Resident Mrs. Howard Ulrich, 26, of Yakima, Wash., the former Shirley Ann Stone of Stanley, was killed in a hunting accident near Yakima, Thursday, Oct. 12.

Mrs. Ulrich was hunting with her husband in the Gold Creek area when she was fatally shot by another hunter. Ulrich had put down his camera and was only about six feet away from her when he heard a shot and she grasped her side and fell over.

Ulrich called for help and Thurman Haworth, the hunter who admitted firing the fatal shot, ran up the hill to the victim’s aid. That is the account given in the local daily papers, which go on further to relate that Haworth told officers that the light was behind Mrs. Ulrich. He could not distinguish the color of her clothing and thought an animal was silhouetted against the light. Haworth said he mistook the hunter for a cougar. He said he checked with his binoculars, then fired one shot.

CO-OP GIVES UP LOCAL MILK PLANT (photo) On Monday of this week the Falls Dairy company, Jim Falls, took over operation of the local milk plant, owned since 1938 by the Ladysmith Milk Producer’s Cooperative associations The cooperative purchased it from John Amacher.

High School paper endorsed by Walter H. Brovald in ‘Your Editor Gets Behind the 8-Ball’ Well, let’s see. Right beside me here I have a copy of the first of a series of weekly mimeographed newspapers being put out by the junior class up at Stanley high school. Pretty nice job of it, too. It’s a grand thing for high school students to pursue. I’m all for hatching some journalists out of each year’s graduating class and maybe this school newspaper will give a few the bug.

80 Years Ago October 25, 1940

PHIL SAYS WAR WILL MEAN U.S. DICTATOR Former Governor Spoke Here on Monday To Small Crowd. County Candidates Here.

Philip F. LaFollette, three times Governor of Wisconsin, was a distinguished speaker in Stanley on Monday at the Auditorium. The crowd which gathered to receive him was not large enough to be worthy of the occasion. This was probably due to the fact that Mr. LaFollette’s visit here received only a few minutes of advertising with a loudspeaker outfit. Mr. LaFollette came here from Ladysmith, where he spent Sunday and several of the county candidates met him here.

DRAFTEES EXCUSED FROM PAYING DEBTS Wisconsin Draft Totals 365,577, Ten Sons Of One Family Register For Draft.

Congress has passed and the President has signed legislation relieving all men in the draft and the National Guard from financial obligations which they are unable to meet on their pay of $21 per month, such as life insurance premiums, rent and the enforcement of payments on contract purchases, and the foreclosure under mortgages is forbidden.

October 18, 1940

U.S. NOT WORRIED ABOUT JAPAN BLUFF Congress Will Remain in Session. Speeding Up War Plane Production.

(Merlin Hull, M. C.) WASHINGTON, Oct. 14—The Japanese situation is causing some alarm, but the State Department state that it is really not that much different than it has been, except that Japan has published the fact of its alliance with Germany and Italy…Nobody who has observed Japan’s course for a decade or two is inclined to put much faith in its army-controlled political ring one way or another. The original bluff failed to work, and others may follow. The assurance held out that Japan has no hostile intentions toward us, may also be only a bluff.

100 Years Ago

October 8, 1920

FIRE PERILED WHOLE OF STANLEY COUNTRY High Winds Fanned Smoldering Blaze; Much Property is Destroyed …About noon on Monday the people of Stanley were thoroughly alarmed by the approach of the fires from the north and northwest and but for a timely change in the direction of the wind, Stanley people might have been compelled to fight to save the city from destruction.

120 Years Ago October 20, 1900

LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Don’t miss it. Next week Wednesday at the opera house, Dayton E. Cook Hon. W. W. Potter and the republican candidates for county offices, next Wednesday evening at the opera house.

Rev. Fr. Byrne of St. Mary’s church made a trip to Eau Claire on Tuesday.

A Special Religious Meeting.

Rev. T. C. Meckel of Erie, Pa., a very able and energetic minister of the Evangelical church, will conduct special divine services at Union Hall on Monday, Oct. 22 at 10 a.m. A cordial invitation to hear this able reverend preach is extended to the German public.

123 Years and Seven Months Ago May 18, 1896

Ruling today in an 8-1 decision, the United States Supreme Court today upheld the Separate Car Act of Louisiana, which holds that separate rail car accommodations for black and white do not violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, provided they are equal. The Court’s decision comes as a series of restrictive laws is increasingly being put in place nationwide and the failure of Reconstruction in the post-War South has rendered many laws meant to enshrine black and white equality as words on paper, but without real effect.