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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1973
Page
5
Students compete at the regional level in Lubbock this weekend with events in Boys Informative Speaking and Boys Persuasive Speaking. Participants include Jim Dunnam and Larry Hooper among others.
Bronte High School wins the regional golf tournament in Lubbock with a two day team total of 671, Wayne Alexander runner up medalist with 152, Jayton in third. The win earns a state berth in Austin.
The Bronte Longhorn Band earned Division I ratings in both concert and sightreading at the UIL contest in Abilene and secured the Sweepstakes Award for top ratings in all three events. Band Director Louis Thornton hailed the result and announced a May 1 spring concert and a May 10 11 Six Flags Band Festival trip.
Funeral services for Elbert Wrinkle 73 were held at Central Baptist Church with Rev. M E Patterson and Rev C R Blake officiating. Burial followed at Fairview Cemetery. Wrinkle died Tuesday night at Bronte Hospital after a long illness. He was born January 6 1900 in Goldthwaite and moved to Bronte in 1920. Surviving are a son Wilburn Wrinkle of Bronte and three brothers D T Wrinkle Cottonwood A L Wrinkle and Bill Wrinkle Bronte plus many nephews and nieces. Pallbearers were Milton Bryan Ballinger Billy Charles Wrinkle Rankin Bob Wrinkle Charles Simes Robert Lee Garland Spencer and Rupert Robbins.
The Bronte Lions Club sponsors an annual broom sale on Saturday to promote quality blind made products. Proceeds go to blind workers in Lighthouses for the Blind and to Lions Club community projects. Buyers can visit the First National Bank corner location to choose items. a city canvass continues on the back page.
The Band Booster Club will hold its next meeting on Tuesday April 17 at 7 p.m. Officers for the next year will be elected and all members are urged to attend.
New faces will join the city council school board and hospital district board after last Saturday’s elections. Glenn Skelton led trustee voting with 119, incumbent. Joe Ward 117. Russell Carlton 104, with Ward new to the board. Other alderman votes include A D McCarty 103 and Gracy Coulter 5. Louis Thornton 115 and L O Clark 103. Dennis Abzir 48. Thornton and Clark replace Bill Thomas and Jerry Parker who did not seek reelection. C E Bruton reelected to East Coke County Hospital District board with 125 votes. Glenn Sims was mentioned in the count.
Bronte High School volleyball team left for Levelland to compete in the regional tournament at South Plains College after earning a regional berth with a bi district playoff win over Miles. In Tuesday’s games Bronte won 15 7 and 15 7 with Coulson leading scorers in the first match and McClure Lee and McGuire among top contributors in the second. Junior high also beat Miles in three of four games led by Tidwell Barbee Cooper and Skelton with several players scoring.
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