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Newspaper
Bronte Enterprise
Location
Bronte, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1960
Page
4
Bronte Volunteer Fire Department hosts a Donkey Ball game at 7 p m in Bronte School gym to raise funds for equipment and activities. Fire Chief Steve Badley invites the public to attend for a fun event and tickets are sold in advance or at the door.
A comic quirk shows a boy's mock insistence that a sentence end with five prepositions. The piece then shifts to critique of racial integration through court orders in Southern schools, arguing forced integration harms minority children and proposing a better approach.
A Week of Prayer for Foreign Missions is observed at First Baptist Church in Bronte. Monday featured His Peace for the Multitude Seeing the Multitudes Hungry and Diseased with participants Mmes. Cumbie Anderson Sims Jr. and Clark and special music by Mrs Wendell Gideon.
Over the weekend guests gathered at the Rasco home hosted by Mr and Mrs J R Rasco. Attendees included neighbors and a regional family contingent sharing meals and casual conversations in a cordial social close.
T B Dink Beaver sustained two broken ribs and a slight concussion when a 1960 Cadillac owned by Mr. Ashmore of Midland rolled over on the highway near Tennyson. Ashmore, who was driving, escaped injury. Beaver received treatment at Bronte Hospital and was reported to be doing fine.
The annual 1960 Longhorn football banquet will be held at 7 p.m. on December 16 in the school lunchroom. Conda Richards will MC, lettermen and captains will be introduced, and Supt. C. B. Barbee will speak. Tickets cost $1 and go on sale Monday from Coach Howard or the Enterprise office, with parents given first purchase access.
Delmir Sheppard, 60, of Robert Lee died at home from a heart attack Sunday night. A Coke County rancher, he operated several sheep and cattle ranches in Divide and other areas. He leaves his wife Norma Whiteside Sheppard and children Delmir Mor tis Bert Jerome Nelda Brook, plus siblings and 15 grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. at the Robert Lee Methodist Church under Clift Funeral Home.
Cynthia Ann Wolf is the newborn daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wolf of Bronte born Tuesday November 22 at Bronte Hospital. She weighed 7 pounds 3 ounces and has a sister Linda eight years old. The father serves as minister for the Church of Christ.
Mr and Mrs J R Harris of Lawton Oklahoma spent Thanksgiving with their son Dr John R Harris and family. Their daughter Ann also visited from Radford School for Girls El Paso. The family recently moved into a new home located across the street from their former residence.
Bronze high school basketball opened with the A team 39 30 over Ballinger and the B team 32 23 over Ballinger B to hand undefeated status. Dana Eubanks led the A squad with 21 points and Sue Blackmon topped the B with 18. Freshmen lost 17 11 as Elaine Bennett led Ballinger with 10 and Georgia Owens led Brone with 5.
City engineers report Clyde Construction Co of Odessa, the winning bidder, will be ready to begin the new Bronte sewer project mid December. Surveying of grades and route layout will start next week, with officials urging prospective users to sign up and pay the $25 deposit at city hall.
W. W. Millikin of Bronte sustained injuries in a late Tuesday night pickup crash about 11 miles south of Junction. He was taken to Kimble County Hospital after a passerby wrecker offer and truck driver helped. Mrs. Millikin and relatives traveled to Junction.condition described as serious with neck laceration and back wound.
Charles Taylor a teacher at Ozona High School will present a one man pantomime show to raise funds for the Longhorn Band. The event is set for Saturday December 3rd at 7 30 PM in the school auditorium with admission of 25 or 50 cents. Proceeds support new band uniforms.
Thanksgiving guests at the home of Mr and Mrs Preston Davis included Mr and Mrs Portis Robbins and their Fort Stockton family and Mr and Mrs Melvin Blumentritt and their baby from San Angelo. The Davis daughters hosted the women in the family.
Mr and Mrs J G Mills and granddaughters Marhia Ellen and Glinda Jane spent the Thanksgiving weekend in Midland visiting the D L Brunson family.
A dated hospital log records multiple admissions and discharges from November 15 to 27. Names include MRIS Phillips, Keesee, Coppedge, McCutchen, Talauras, Andrea, Ybarra, Mullins, Hester, Andrea, Valles, Pinkard, Laird, Guernsey, Caperton, Joplin, Beaver, Vinson, and others among admitted and dismissed patients and relatives.
The Bronte High School band will march in Winters Christmas parade this afternoon December 1. Parade begins at 4 p.m.
Rev. and Mrs. Bob Grimes and their boys spent the holidays with relatives in San Antonio.
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