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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1969
Page
8
Voters statewide will mark ballots on Tuesday August 5 in Texas to decide nine constitutional amendments. The prominent No 2 allows the Texas Water Development Board with Legislature approval to issue 3.5 billion dollars in revenue bonds for water resource development.
The Bronze Summer Partnership Golf Tournament comes to the local course for 54 holes over Saturday and Sunday with 27 holes per day. 21 teams have entered, including squads from San Angelo Robert Lee Ballinger Winters Kerrville Sonora and Bronte, and Sonny Perez is among expected attendees. Leaders will play 8 am and 1 pm Saturday with prizes for top three in each flight and birdie team medals on day one.
Supt. C B Barbee announced 285 reserve seats for the 1969 home football schedule go on sale August 18 at 1.25 dollars per game. Last year holders have until September 5 for renewal before general sale begins. The Longhorns schedule six home games with four on the road.
Consumers who bought broad spectrum antibiotics between 1954 and 1966 may file claims against five drug companies in an antitrust suit led by the Texas attorney general. Claimants can obtain a form from County Clerk Winnie Waldrop at the courthouse in Robert Lee.
A special eight page insert in this week's Bronte Enterprise urges voters to pass Amendment 2 to finance the Texas Water Plan. The insert explains the long range plan for Texas water resources and is funded by local sponsors including L. T. Youngblood Hurley Pharmacy and Bronte merchants.
The First Baptist Church in Bronte hosts a revival starting Monday with Bobby G. Good preaching. Morning services run Tuesday to Friday at 10 am and evening services Monday to Saturday at 7 30 pm, with Sunday hours at 11 am and 7 pm. Steve Crouch leads singing.
Absentee voting starts next week in Coke County to decide creating a hospital district in commissioner precincts two and four. Election day is August 23 with Bronte and Tennyson as polling sites. Voting is open to resident property taxpayers who have rendered taxes. Local organizers aim to fund a nursing home, serving both residents and nearby areas. Presiding and alternate judges are named for Bronte and Tennyson boxes.
Leroy Elliott retires after ten years as Coke County government trapper and is replaced by Jim Skinner from Uvalde. Elliott plans to move with his wife to a farm at Katempey and their six married children live in Snyder Colorado City Fort Stockton Mason and Katempey. Skinner and family arrive in Add Davis Trail er Park in a trailer and will continue trapper work for seven years.
The Rev. Fred H. Brown serves as counsellor this week at Mount Wesley Kerrville for the ninth and tenth grade assembly during a Methodist campment.
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