Bronte Area Records Heavy Rain and Oak Creek Lake Spillover
Bronte received about 15 inches of rain this year with a recent total of 3.4 inches in the past week. Oak Creek Lake surpassed its 100 yard spillway on Saturday as water rose to 1.47 feet above spillway level, flooding creeks, washing out ravines, and trapping lake keeper Walter Stapp and Ancil Nunn on the spillway before rescuers pulled them to safety.
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Bronte
Oak Creek Lake
Sweetwater
Kaiser
Oak
Walter Stapp
Ancil Nunn
Stapp
Nunn
Nunnn
Blackwell
Lakes fill and humor as Bronte notes summer heat
The local note celebrates Oak Creek Lake reaching full pool and the community’s good humor about heat and mosquitos. It mentions summer plans, the school’s end, and extends congratulations to the 1957 senior class with brief notes on two graduates working at The Enterprise. A lost dog is found roaming, described as red and Chow-like, wearing a belt-collar.
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Gene Walker
James Vernon Andrews
Bronte
Kinneys to Attend Kinney’s Texas A&M Graduation
Mr and Mrs Cecil Kinney will travel today to Texas A and M College for the graduation of son Charles W Kinney with exercises set for Saturday May 25. After the ceremonies they will spend the weekend and then proceed to Denver Colorado to visit daughter Mrs Robert M Lowry and family for the remainder of a two week vacation.
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Cecil Kinney
Charles W. Kinney
Texas A & M College
Baptist Bible School Opens at First Bronte Church
First Baptist Church will hold its annual Vacation Bible School with a Preparation Day Parade at 10 a.m. this Saturday May 25. Classes run Monday May 27 through Friday May 31 from 8 to 11 each morning featuring worship Bible stories activities recess refreshments music character stories and a handwork period. Reverend Douglas Brown urges every Bronte child to attend.
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First Baptist Church
Douglas Brown
Our Baptist Church
Bronte
Mrs Hipp to Leave Goodfellow AFB for Germany Tour
Mrs Bill Hipp departs Sunday by air from Goodfellow AFB San Angelo to join Lt Hipp in Germany where the couple will reside about 16 months. Visiting last weekend were Mr and Mrs J D Luttrell Jr and their son James David of Lubbock a Texas Tech student.
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Bill Hipp
Air Sundday
Goodfellow Afb
San Angelo
Frankfurt
Germany
Hipp
U. S. Army
Hipps
J. D. Luttrell, Jr
James David
Lubbock
Texas Tech
Bronte High School to Honor 19 Seniors at Tonight’s Commencement
19 Bronte seniors will receive diplomas at 8 p.m. in the high school auditorium with speaker Jacob Morrow and Judge W. H. Rampy. Joy Wilkins tops the class with 97.8 and will deliver the valedictory. Bobby Hester is salutatorian.
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W. H. Rampy
Ballinver
Bronte High School
Rampy
Wilmeth
Runnels County
Oscar Dorsey
Lin Loeffler
Owen Cosgrove
Joy Wilkins
L. L. Wilkins
Bobby Hester
Joe Hester
Richard Wayne Rees
R. W. Rees
Supt
Garland Black
Jacob Morrow
Bronte
R. W. Blackmon
Troyce Allen
James Andrews
Bobby Brock
Patsy Brock
Jimmy Brunson
Billy Eubanks
Jo Ann Gentry
Clifford Hageman
Ronald Hughes
Carolyn Kemp
Jimmy Lee
Joe Ramirez
Richard Rees
Betty Taylor
Gene Walker
Joe Don Wilkins
Bill Wrinkle
Memorial Day holiday closings announced for Bronte
Bronte merchants will close next Thursday May 30 for Memorial Day. City hall post office and bank also close. The Enterprise staff will take Friday May 31 off. Future closures include July 4 as next docketed holiday. Residents urged to plan around these dates to avoid inconvenience.
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Bronte
Water Seepage Delays Auditorium Use at New School
Water from recent rains poured into the auditorium of the new elementary school, flooding the front and under the stage so senior baccalaureate services moved to First Baptist Church. Superintendent Garland Black said the water was pumped out and the commencement program would proceed in the auditorium tonight. Inspectors from Fort Worth visited to determine the cause and repairs will be planned this summer.
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First Baptist Church
Garland Black
Fort Wort
Taylor County Coop Eyes Purchase of Norton Co Telephone
Taylor County Telephone Coop has option to buy Norton Co from Mrs Gordon T Charlton of Merizon. The firm serves Norton and Maverick communities. Manager John Hardesty said funds will be available if enough subscribers join. A modern dial system would be installed east of here after purchase.
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Taylor County Telephone Coop
Oak Creek Telephone Co
Gordon T. Charlton
Merizon
Norton
Maverick
John Hardesty
Coop
Here
Taylor County Coop
Wingate
Wilmeth
Seniors Have Party at Bronte High Pool and Dinner
The Senior Class of Bronte High held a pool party at the local pool last Friday before a picnic supper in the school cafeteria due to rain. About forty students and parents attended, and on Sunday they honored their parents with a dinner at Steve's Ranch House in San Angelo with class members parents and special guests present.
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Bronte High
Steve
San Angelo
New Water Tank Still Not Up
City officials face a shortage of contractors with the large lifting equipment needed to raise a second tank beside the current one. Santa Fe Railway Co donated the tank, moved here to ease summer pressure, and council members say every effort is being made to install it before peak water use arrives.
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Santa Fe Railway Co
Plans for new ball field near Bronte Legion building
City officials and Little League sponsors plan a baseball field east of the American Legion building in Bronte. The city owned land between the Legion hall and the old city park would host the project, with Mayor Ernest Ivey and Supt. Garland Black backing shared costs. Commissioner Howard Brock offers county road equipment to level the ground, and the site proximity to county park facilities is cited as an advantage.
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American Legion
Bronte
Legion Hall
Old City Park
Howard Brock
Ernest Ivey
Supt
Garland Black
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