7lomber l\USAU W .AUS L\ W 71 SEE PAGE SPECIAL WAUSAU NUMBER (Index at En.'G Cm1PAXY To Wausau and Marathon County-Greetings! This volume is dedicated exclusively to Wausau and as well in the newer enter the surrounding communities of which it is definitely prises that are on their way a part. It is history brought up to date. As current up to the same type of suc Erik L. Madiscn reading it should prove fascinating, but in years to cess. come it will become a prec:ious document. No (•!aim is made that However, this compilation is more than histor~'· It this edition is complete. The publishers have tried (,o is a tribute to a community that can take justifiable eYaluate the mass of compiled data to deride what pride in its accomplishments. Here there breathes a would best tell the story to posterity. civic spirit that would he the envy of many another Acknowledgment is made gratcfu lly here to the many city. community leaders, organizations and other enthusiasts The industries, many of which grew up with the who have so willingly cooperated to help us make this area, have not been content; to rest on tradition. edition worth while. An attempt to name them would Through invention, researrh an the city, state and federal govern people are looking ahead is perhaps received from business area parking ments. best demonstrated in the field of trans meters, certainly a fair method of The miracle of modern mercul·y portation. financing the off-street parking and type lighting has been brought to Alexander Municipal Airport, re an indication that those who hold the long stretches of two Wausau streets. modeled in recent years at a cost of reins of city government foresee con Grand Av enue, the artery which $500,000, is now rated a Class III air tinued growth in their community. carries southbound Highway 51 and port. Its new administration building Besides parking for the future, the eastbound Highway 29 traffic out the was dedicated on September 13th. At city has studied a traffic plan for the south end of the city, ·got the new the very center of the Wisconsin days ahead, when more and more lights first. Last fall, the bright arcs Central Airlines system, the city is residents of the community will be were turned on for the· first time on serviced by eight flights daily. driving more and more automobiles. Menill Avenue and N. Third Avenue, Turning to surface transportation, A traffic survey was completed in 1949 which carry the northbound Highway four new off-street parking lots, three and some of the recommendations, 51 traffic. Plans are now being talked on the East Side and one on the West notably the establishment of one-way up for new lights in the downtown Side, have been set up by the city. street patterns across the Wisconsin business areas. To finance the purchase of the land River in the downtown area, have al Water, often taken for granted, may and equipping of lots with blacktop, ready been put into practice. seem like an insignificant item. But drainage, meters and mercury-type The new $650,000 hridge across the ·wa usau is taking no chances. Three lighting, $350,000 in revenue bonds river on the South Side was dedicated new wells, each with its own pump were issued. The bonds are to be re- Augu:>t 10th. The cost was shared by house annt, own their own homes. But serving both city and county. Tops of the foundation. Contributions rang Wam;au's growth is spelled out in among the city's many fine parks is ed from a few pennies to thousands of many ways. From 1940 to 1950, ::vlarathon Park, site of the annual dollars. postal receipts jumped from $214,738 Wisconsin Valley Fair and a beehive Private firms, too, are confident of to $568,244; telephones from 6,455 to of activity during the remainder of Wummu's future. Wisconsin Public 12,90G, and bank clearances from the year. The Youth Building in the Service Corporation is building a $109,380,508 to $305,841,119. In the park and the Youth Dining Hall, at $13,000,000 steam power plant south five post-war years, the number of the entrance, are used for everything of the city on the Wisconsin River. electric customers went from 15,638 from speeches by presidential candi Its directors are confident the need to 18,608. dates to school dances. for electric power will continue to America's greatest resource is her Planning for the future by Mayor grow in Wausau and the valley. children. )[o city anywhere is doing Giese and the city fathers includes a As a medical center, the city is tops more to provide good education. re-districting of wards. Last performed in northern Wisconsin. There are two Under Superintendent of Schools G.W. in 1905, some wards have expanded out of control. This is being taken care of by ordinance. Also an aim for the future is a municipal garage, housing all city equipment under one roof. Centraliz ing mechanics and equipment would save time and money, the mayor contends. There is plenty of evidence that Wausau is sports-minded. The city has a professional baseball team in the Lumberjacks, Detroit Tiger farm team in the Wisconsin State League, and a professional football team in the CO:\'IMANDING OFFJCEHS. POLICE DEPARTMENT- Front row, from left: Safety :\1uskies, champions of the Central Director Harry Anklam, Scrgt. Harry Wohlfahrt, Lieut. Otto Lewitzke, Chief Everett Glea States Professional League. son. Lieut. Raymond Erdman, Sergt. Wilbert Penn and Sergt. Isadore Zell. Second row: Sergts. Sylvester Gujewski and Arthur Bichler, Safety Director llalph Bettin Rib Mountain, Wisconsin's highest and Police Matron Dorothy Knocek. point, is the mecca of thousands of Third row: Detectives '.'rorma11 Zietlow and Jack Coleman. (Absent: Detective Clarence midwest skiers during the winter c:ehrke.) WISCONSIN MAGAZINE 5 WAUSAU FIUE DEPAUTMENT- Bot.t.om row, from ldt.: ln$pector Edward llsadel. Lieut .. Frank Kluever, Ilol1111d K'emp, Capt. Ervin Fell, Asst. Chief Michael Gcrum, Chief W. G. Petzold, A~st. Chief Otto Abitz, Capt. Ben Braun, Leon \Vhite, Elro.v 'l't-tzlatf, Lieut. Lloyd Soukup, and Mechanic William Hanke. Second row: Charles Eggebrecht, James Jackson, Fredrick Hcynold$, Allen :\l:llucg, Alfred Salzrr. Gcrnld Hhyncr, :\[~Ton Storm and Ells- worth Lotzer. Third row: ('apt. Paul Lewitzke, Donald Stuble11·ski. Ln\'1•rn<• Lenhard, Jamrs Petzold, Capt. Brrnnrd Slomske and Emil :\itsche. Fourth row: <'a.pt. . \\'alter Kluever, George Bra.ndenburµ;, H.obert Fochs, Emil Borchardt, Evrrett Beach and C1111t. i\h•lvin Gehring. Fifth row: Capt. . Frank Salzer, Harry Sniegoski, Aloysius C:<•igcr, Elroy I la.hn, :\fark Eisenmann, :\lartin Zarnke, Erwin Smith and C:ipt.. Robert Forcey. Bannerman, big strides haYc l>cen persons last year and paid them vVausau Civic Music Association and made in recent years. The biggest 1rns $1,933,02G, to rank fourth. numerous other groups. the building of Lhe seconrite hors d'oeuvre was whittled here. That the rings ju your automobile engine rolled out of here. WAUSAU Cll.~MDER OF COMMERCE-Bott.om ro\\', from left: A. W. PliPr, ticcond vice Such "that's" are endless. There is rpernescied cSnitp;p I!T, . tGh.i rdB ecvkic,e p-prrP agriculture, reneational facilities. Chief among Ray Bohl, \\'ho has since become a:; which has always been high among them has been the promotion of the sociated 11·i lh. Employers ·Yluttials. He the Chamber's interesl,;. Its rural re Rih :\!fountain winter sports arPa. lt handled the rC'tail council's work. lations committee holds L\\'o farm has helped make the sport.~' ski courses membership drives, the Rib Mountain city fellowship dimwn; \\'i th rnral dO\rn the side of the mountain one of promotion ancl had charge of the office groups. the sports capitols of the mid1rnst.. The personnel, \l'hich includes six persons, Wausau lies in the C'entcr of Mara Hib's facilities include seven difficult two of them in the credit bureau. thon County's fertile, rolling lands. trails, ll'inding through rough terrain, :\1arathon County is the largest in the a long open 1;lope, t\l'o 1a surrounding Wausau is 107,808 per sons, while that of a 50-mile radius is 266,914. As a distribution center Wausau is fed by two railroads, five motor ex press lines, five bus lines and an airline. It is located on U.S. Highway 51 and WAUSAU CLUB-Front row, from left: Walter J. Arenz, direct.or;\\'. F. McCormick, trens urer; J. M. Hweitzer, president, and .John E. Forester, secretary. Back row: E. K. Schutez, State Highways 29 and 52. vice-prcsidcut, and J. Edward Meyer, George H. Stueber and George L. H.uder, directors. The Chamber has played an im- (N'ot prcscut: Dr. Donald M. Green, director.) s W1sco!SSIN MAGAZINE.

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