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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1964
Page
5
The community plans a June 6 celebration with a fiddle contest a Pony Express racing event a square dance show and antique car displays to attract large crowds. Town history notes include the Wolfskill Rancho grant and Winters California connections with local development plans referenced.
Hospital superintendent Mrs. Tommy Rou gas leads the first class set to graduate in November after completing roughly 450 hours of classroom instruction and about 350 hours of hands on hospital training.
The Winters Junior Hospital Auxiliary known as Candy Stripers has received its charter from the Texas Association of Hospital Auxiliaries, becoming one of two junior auxiliaries under state auspice without a local senior group. The present class, 16 members, will wear caps on June 11, with the program dating to February 1963 and about 2800 hours logged by members in the past year. The class includes Bobby Gans through Zanette Moore.
Winters High School won the team championships at the district tennis meet in Abilene. Nicki Eoff will represent Winters at regional in Lubbock on April 24 25 after winning senior girls singles. Beverly Sprinkle and Cherilyn Beard with Mary Lou Wilkerson also excelled in juniors and girls events. Junior boys and other doubles teams fell short of advancing.
Mr and Mrs Dick Kruse and Delbert Kruse hosted Joyce Lucas and her children Cindy Alan and Audrey Kay of Midland for a Sunday visit at her parents home.
C O Patterson Winters of Lawn was honored at UT Honors Day as a Phi Beta Kappa member and one of 20 student leaders recognized by The Cactus yearbook for its 1964 edition. He is the son of C O Patterson Sr. and valedictorian of Winters High School class of 1960. He plans graduate work in chemistry at UT toward MA and PhD. He holds leadership roles in Alpha Phi Omega and other campus groups.
Jim Williams, president, said the Winters Riding Club will hold a Sunday ride on April 12 at 2 p m. Riders meet at Jim's Cafe. The club will close new memberships on May 1 to allow new members to obtain riding gear for upcoming parades and events.
Mr and Mrs Button Little and their son Michael visit with Mr and Mrs Bud Little and Jo Ann Hart of Lubbock during a weekend stay at the Little residence.
Raymon Lloyd and Audra L Mitchell were reelected to the Winters school board Saturday with 106 and 104 votes respectively. E E King joined the county school board as the chair. A total of 140 votes were cast with write ins Dr Henry McCreight 32 Wade White 18 Wayne Bedford 17 and Marvin Bedford 1.
Newcomers Homer Hodge and James C. Colburn join incumbents W. M. Hays and R. C. Thomas on the Winters City Council after a 276 vote total in the special and regular elections. Hays led the special with 243 votes. regular results gave Hodge 232, Colburn 155, and Thomas 227, with others including Roy Austin 151 and P. R. Gerlach 47. Write-ins included T. A. Smith and Joe Emmert. Mayor Harvey D. Jones said the new council would be organized at the April 20 meeting.
Winters Chamber of Commerce board selects a non official list of 1964 holidays for local merchants. The proposed days include July 4 Labor Day Thanksgiving New Year’s and Christmas as a recommendation.
J A Patterson of Valley View recalls his 1898 trip to a Methodist camp meeting on Bluff Creek east of Winters with relatives. He describes sparse early Winters from 1900, the Murray gin running day and night, the growth of Main Street and Dale Street, and the Pumphrey family’s land and cotton hauling.
Karen Knapp or Winters High School sophomore was selected Tuesday as Winters Lions Club Queen and will represent the club at the district convention in Brownwood on May 23. She competes to become Queen of District 2A-1 with the chance to advance to state contests.
Russell Mote, general superintendent of production for G. W. Strake Winters office, is transferred to Midland to serve as Midland office manager. Other Strake personnel moving from Winters include John Davis, division geologist and landman, J. W. Ward, division engineer, and Carley Watkins, administrative supervisor. James Colburn will head Winters district operations.
Winters set for a combined celebration on June 6 featuring an old fiddlers contest a second Pony Express Race and a square dance exhibition. Promotional efforts by Lewis M. Mitchell Jim Williams and Wilbur Waggoner broadened into a city chamber organized event with antique car display by Ed Fisher. The Pony Express Race runs from Blue Gap to Winters with 12 horses per team and western gear rules. Additional acts may be added as plans finalize.
The City Council approved a Monday night annexation increasing Inland area by 11 acres. Skyline Heights, opened and under development by Winters Lumber Co., was annexed after a petition presentation by Harvey D. Jones, company manager.
Raymond Cowan, longtime Wingate School teacher and coach, was elected superintendent after A Dooley resigned for a similar post at Christoval. Cowan, 12 years at Wingate, has coached all grade sports and previously coached at Zephyr and assisted at Santa Anna. He served in World War II and the National Guard, is married to Nina Brown, and has two daughters. Other elected Wingate teachers include Mrs. Raymond Cowan and Mrs. Owren Dunn. City notes cover annexation planning for Skyline Heights and a 12 member planning commission, plus a salvage-pickup agreement for the city dump.
Winters High School FFA members competed in tri area judging contests at Tarleton State College Stephenville. Dairy By-Products team took second and advances to state May 2. Livestock team placed eleventh with J W Aley as fifth high individual. Poultry team included J Davidson Sammy Cockerell and Alvin Gerhart. Meats team Calvin Jackson Ross Anderson and Roger Pendergrass will compete in Fort Worth area contests this weekend.
Mrs Raymon and her daughter Mrs Cullen Johnson cand and Mr Johnson visited in Dallas last week.
Children of pre school age will join the first grade enrollment for next fall in a round up Tuesday April 14 at 2 p m in the Winters School cafeteria. Pupils six by September 1 are urged to attend with census roll invites sent to those named. Mrs Fred Young will schedule preliminary examinations and Robert Simpson will present program items.
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9193 and Ladies Auxiliary presided at the dedication of the U S and Christian Flags for the First Presbyterian Church of Winters. Out of town guests from San Angelo included L N Kirkpatrick and family, John Richardson, Mel Stanley, and others joining Rev Edgar Graham and local VFW officers in the event.
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