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Contains information garnered from the notes of local historian, Lois Barland in the writing of her local histories.
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| Note Date | Subject | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 1946-02-15 | Water Street Bridge | LG Arnold low bidder on Water St. $380,105. |
| 1946-02-01 | City Growth | City will get 100 more temporary homes. |
| 1946-01-28 | Martin Motors | Expect to employ 200 when full production reached. Martin from IN & is former professional outboard champion. Has spent years working on radical new two-cycle engine. |
| 1946-01-22 | City Growth | Lieutenant G. Donald Barnes resumes position as mayor after 3 1/2 years in armed services. Councilman William J. Mills & later Orville G. Christianson served as acting mayors. |
| 1946-01-20 | Martin Motors | Division of Pressure Cooker Co. |
| 1946-01-19 | Airport | Two Concrete runways 4100 x 100 feet & 4300 x 100 feet, shoulders rough. Foundations of administration building in. |
| 1946-01-10 | Union National Bank | All officers reelected. Carl Glocke President, Knute Anderson, Charles A. Bugher & MB Severson Vice Presidents, JW Selbach Cashier. BG Weizenegger, RV Wilcox, EJ Oin, & Einar Chilgren Assistant Cashiers. |
| 1946-01-08 | School Board | Propose $150 increase for 187 teachers. |
| 1946-01-04 | Fires | 1945 loss $41,000. |
| 1946-01-04 | Presto (National Pressure Cooker Co.) | Directors named. |
| 1946-01-04 | WEAU | Requests power increase for night. |
| 1946-01-03 | City Growth | First four or five families move into housing. |
| 1946-01-01 | World War II | 4,577 from EC County served in war. 1,968 discharged. |
| 1945-12-13 | City Growth | Will apply for 100 more units from Merrimac. Have 317 applications. Sewer & water pipe laying holding things up. Hope 20 units ready by Christmas. |
| 1945-12-12 | Normal School | Article. |
| 1945-12-04 | World War II | Sergeant John O. Bruer on convalescent furlough. Was captured at fall of Bataan, survived Death March and escaped with companion over mountain pass to Manila Bay. They clung to 12' log and made their way 8 or 9 miles through shark infested waters to Corregidor where he remained in action until final surrender when he was sent to Japanese prison camp 15 miles from Nagasaki where he saw atomic bomb hit. |
| 1945-12-02 | Skiing | Ten years ago Hendrickson member of Olympic team. |
| 1945-11-21 | World War II | Corporal Gordon Derringer bronze star. |
| 1945-11-07 | World War II | Lieutenant Colonel Karl F. Moessner got Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. |
| 1945-11-06 | World War II | Staff Sargeant Harry Bosier shot down by German jet fighters parachuted into Germany and liberated by Russians. |
| 1945-11-02 | Fires | City buys 85' aerial ladder for $20,050. |
| 1945-11-02 | World War II | Corporal Clarence Olson died. Illness on board ship enroute home. |
| 1945-10-31 | World War II | Private First Class Walter E. Boehlke missing in action, Holland battle. |
| 1945-10-30 | World War II | Victory Loan drive launched. County quota$1,540,000. |
| 1945-10-14 | Walker Brothers | Announce huge sub-division project old fairgrounds & airport, 430 acres. |
| 1945-10-04 | Masonic Lodge | Morgage liquidated. |
| 1945-10-03 | City Growth | Buildings to be located on Drummond Packing Co. property, site leased to city, now 160 applicants. |
| 1945-10-03 | World War II | Corporal Elwood Roholt and Private First Class Ervin Keilholz on way home from Philippine prisoner of war camp. |
| 1945-10-02 | Western Electric | 215 laid off, 437 remain, production at standstill. |
| 1945-09-30 | World War II | Captain Frank E. Betz received silver and bronze stars, 4 oak clusters. |
| 1945-09-28 | World War II | James Hestekin received Distinquished Flying Corss, Air Medal and two gold stars. |
| 1945-09-27 | World War II | Private Norman Elliot freed from Japanese custody. Lieutenant Robert Tusken freed from Japanese custody. |
| 1945-09-26 | City Growth | Council to split three big wards in half to give city 13 wars. Part of 9th to be 11th; part of 10, the 12th; part of 3rd will be the 13th. |
| 1945-09-25 | Presto (National Pressure Cooker Co.) | Fifth award, shells, rockets, fuses & bombs. |
| 1945-09-25 | Immaculate Conception | New parish created. |
| 1945-09-22 | World War II | Tech Sergeant R. Mattson has Air Medal with 3 clusters and Distinquished Flying Cross. |
| 1945-09-19 | Western Electric | Plant to close, produced electronic tubes for radar equipment. |
| 1945-09-19 | World War II | Captain Kenneth Boggs liberated from Japanese prisoner of war camp. |
| 1945-09-18 | Western Electric | Rally of 800 ruge plant to continue here, employ 500 from EC & 300 from CF. |
| 1945-09-18 | City Growth | Co. assessed valuation set at $64,114,765. |
| 1945-09-13 | World War II | Lieutenant DeAlton Neher was co-pilot on first Navy transport plane to evacuate prisoners of War from Japan, was in Tokyo VJ Day. |
| 1945-09-09 | World War II | Tech Sergeant Orville E. Gynnild gets Bronze Star and Soldier's Medal. Private First Class Franklin Welki gets Bronze Star and Soldier's Medal. |
| 1945-09-07 | World War II | Sergeant George Schoenknect received Bronze Star. |
| 1945-09-07 | World War II | Frederick Rudd killed in sea battle, Solomon Islands, 1943. |
| 1945-09-05 | World War II | Local sailors on board battleship "Missouri" when Japanese surrender signed include Robert Johnson and Everett C. Rud. |
| 1945-09-02 | Wisconsin Telephone Company | 525 in EC now awaiting telephone service. |
| 1945-09-01 | City Growth | City applies for 200 demountable houses from Badger Ordinance plant near Baraboo. |
| 1945-08-28 | World War II | Captain Bruce Nelson received Bronze Star as Intelligence officer in Coast Artillery Corps. |
| 1945-08-25 | Street Improvements | City council votes first paving job since 1928. Federal funds since. Platt & Oxford to have concrete. |
| 1945-08-25 | City Growth | Accute housing shortage with end of war & return of veterans. |
| 1945-08-25 | World War II | Lieutenant Allan Lynnes piloted one of Mustangs acting as escort to Super fortress which dropped atomic bomb. M. O. Otterson asks continued saving of tin cans and paper. |
| 1945-08-24 | Airport | Bids asked for grading & runway work. Congressional appropriation of $500,000 set aside for project less $35,000 cost of surveys. Any things left will be applied to buildings. |
| 1945-08-23 | World War II 32nd Division | Some history of "Red Arrow". |
| 1945-08-23 | World War II | Private First Class Robert Lantz killed in action on Luzon. |
| 1945-08-22 | Camp Fire Girls | Eight girls receive awards at first council fire. |
| 1945-08-19 | Martin Motors | George W. Martin invented outboard motor now being manufactured in EC. |
| 1945-08-17 | World War II | Gas rationing off, long story. |
| 1945-08-17 | World War II | Lieutenant Colonel B. T. Rogers, 708 2nd Ave., chief engineer of atomic bomb plant. |
| 1945-08-16 | World War II | Victory celebration, died down midnight. |
| 1945-08-15 | World War II | Japanese surrender. Long story. |
| 1945-08-14 | World War II | German prisoners of war (75) helping with corn pack at Langes. Housed at 4-H. |
| 1945-08-14 | World War II | U.S. Rubber supplied large quanitites of material used in making atomic bomb, most work on secret project done between July and October, 1944. |
| 1945-08-12 | World War II | 84 prisoners of war working daily, including Sunday. A total of 16,913 man hours in 1 cannery brought $8,805.02 in U.S. treasury. Camp closed July 28. |
| 1945-08-11 | World War II | Announce special services. Staff Sergeant Glen Stocks lost left leg and seriously injured right one in Africa 27 months ago. |
| 1945-08-07 | World War II | Story of atom bomb on Hiroshima. |
| 1945-08-03 | World War II | Sergeant First Class Gilbert Siebert formerly missing, now presumed dead in Pacific theater. |
| 1945-08-02 | Christ Church | Fannie H. Buffington leaves home at 1500 State St. to diocese for home for aged. |
| 1945-08-01 | U.S. Rubber Company, see also: Gillette | WPB retains heavy tire project. |
| 1945-08-01 | Lange Canning Co. | Company receives "A" award. Some history. |
| 1945-07-31 | Airport | 400 acres at west end Starr Ave. bought 194? WPA disorganized same year, but EC got government grant 1943. |
| 1945-07-29 | Airport | Formal opening of municipal airport. Twin City Aviation Co. of EC & CF announce opening of office at airport & charter service. Planes include new twin engined four passenger transport. Mayor Christianson, Councilman Harold E. House & State Senator Warren Knowles speakers. |
| 1945-07-29 | U.S. Rubber Company, see also: Gillette | WPB cancelled heavy truck tire project, construction to continue on six-story factory. |
| 1945-07-26 | Drownings | Vernon Bain, seven, fell in Dells Pond, body recovered. |
| 1945-07-26 | World War II | Colonel William Wrigglesworth has Legion of Merit, Distinquished Flying Cross, Air Medal 1 cluster, Croix de Guerre & 4 battle stars. Lists EC member of Battery A of 163 Field Art. of 5th Army, National Guard Unit left EC 1940. Staff Sergeant Llewellyn Zielie, Staff Sergeant Robert Magle, Sergeant Willis Martin etc. Long history. |
| 1945-07-21 | Hutchens Industries | 1206 Hastings Way. Founded 1942. History & officers. |
| 1945-07-20 | World War II | Lieutenant Owen Ayres pilot, 2 Distinquesed Flying Corsses, Purple Heart, Air Medal, 4 clusters & 7 battle stars. |
| 1945-07-18 | World War II | Private Ben Strassman died at prisoner of war hospital in Germany. |
| 1945-07-18 | World War II | Lieutenant Harold Korger liberated prisoner of war visiting mother. 2 Distinguished Flying Crosses, Air Medal, 5 Oak Leaf Clusters, 4 battle stars. |
| 1945-07-15 | World War II | Lange Canning Co. wins "A" award for achievement. |
| 1945-07-14 | World War II | Propose living memorial to honor nearly 600 men and women of EC county. Mayor Christianson presides at meeting of community leaders. Committee of 9 to be appointed. |
| 1945-07-13 | World War II | EC County more than double quotain 7th War Loan. |
| 1945-07-12 | World War II | Fred Zutter US Navy missing in Pacific theater. |
| 1945-07-10 | World War II | Captain Robert Mittelstadt awarded Distinguished Flyiing Cross shot down 2 Japanese planes over Kyushu to score 5th Air Forces first kill on enemy home ground, a pilot, has flown 110 combat missions. Bor. Lieutenant Fred, 50 missions in Italy. Lieuetenant jack a paratrooper in Germany, brother Chareles just discharged, sister Betty a WAVE. 175 POW to be housed at 4-H Club buildings. |
| 1945-07-08 | World War II | Lieutenant Sidney Hall, 47 bombing missions, pilot B-24, China, Burma, India theater. Air Medal, 2 Oak Clusters, 3 battle stars. Lieutenant LaJune Wilk, liberated German prisoner of war Stalig I, was 1 of 4 EC men there. |
| 1945-07-07 | World War II | Lieutenant David Bugher, 40 missions as navigator of B-24 in Pacific. Air Medal, 6 Oak Leaf, 3 Bronze Stars |
| 1945-07-04 | Western Electric | Will be 1st WI plant to receive safety council flag, 1,500,000 man-hours in 14 months continuous operation without day lost due to injury. |
| 1945-07-04 | Lange Canning Co. | 60 Jamaicans arriving to help harvest peas. Army bringing 150 German POW's. Kenneth F. Lange Vice President & General Manager. Shortage of labor still. |
| 1945-07-04 | World War II | Army to bring prisoners of war here to help with harvest and canning peas, 150 Germans. |
| 1945-07-03 | World War II | Staff Sergeant Douglas Gorton, 17 months in China, Bronze Star, is home. |
| 1945-07-01 | Branstad Drugstore | Anderson Drug acquires Branstad's #1, 219 South Barstow. Henry O Jaastad will continue to operate Branstad's #2 in EC Hotel building & #3 in Union National Bank. Captain Harold F. Anderson, USA retired, born in EC, graduated high school 1923. Jaastad, president Branstad Drugs, with Co. for 27 years. |
| 1945-07-01 | White Machine Works | New $300,000 foundry being constructed. |
| 1945-06-28 | World War II | Total of 107 registered with Bd #1 discharged from Armed Services since January 1. |
| 1945-06-26 | World War II | Ensign John Plante killed in Naval training flight. |
| 1945-06-24 | World War II | Captain Donovan W. Rulien gets Distinguished Flying Cross, was shot down over Italy, missing 9 months, escapted to US. |
| 1945-06-24 | Drownings | Herman Ziehlsdorf, 43, 912 Water, drown Half Moon |
| 1945-06-20 | World War II | Staff Sergeant Tom DVermilyea discharged after 5 years, 2 months. |
| 1945-06-20 | World War II | Colonel Robert Burns nominated for Brigidier General by Truman. |
| 1945-06-15 | Tendercrust | Schumacher Express terminal sold to Tendercrust. |
| 1945-06-10 | World War II | Sergeant William H. Lange Oak Leaf Cluster. |
| 1945-06-09 | World War II | Colonel Robert W. Burns Croix de Guerre, also has Distinguished Flying Cross. Legion of Merit, Air Medal and Bronze Star. |