The Callaway Volunteer Fire Department was called to the Chuck Schoene residence in Callaway on Nov. 13, where a fire completely destroyed the original part of the house. The Schoenes were in the new addition of the house sleeping when the blaze occurred, and were not injured.

Kenneth Pitkin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pitkin of Callaway, has been named in the Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges at Westmar College in LeMars, Iowa. Ken is president of the student senate and was previously a student senator. He is a member of Chi Alpha Omega and is active in various religious groups on campus.

The Callaway Board of Education heard that 15-passenger vans will become a thing of the past as new federal regulations prohibit the purchase or lease of the vehicles by schools. Superintendent Pat Osmond also reported that a temporary injunction on the school merger law puts the Oconto Public District merger with Callaway on hold until the November election next year.

Callaway Good Samaritan Center purchased a community dining room set with memorial funds donated by the family of the late Ralph and Maxine Downin. Ralph and Maxine of rural Oconto were among the first residents at the center when it opened in 1963.

* The photo above appeared in the Nov. 19, 1975, issue of the Courier. Lions Club District Governor Howard Jones spoke at the meeting of the Callaway Lions Club. Pictured are Jones and his wife, Margaret, and Ole Chesley, president of the local Lions Club, and his wife Donna.