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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1962
Page
6
Citizens confront growing trash in streets and yards urging personal responsibility. Officials note old dump sites and urge residents to curb litter to protect property values and public nuisance. Community action and county efforts aim to reduce discarded waste across Spring Texas and surrounding areas.
Annual Easter program across Winters churches includes sunrise service at City Lake led by First Baptist Church at 5 30 am with Jay Wilkey leading song and Rev J T Flynn delivering the message. Coffee and doughnuts served by Young People’s Dept. Other Easter sermons and Holy Week rites planned at First Baptist Emmanuel Baptist Southside Methodist Mt Carmel Catholic and local parishes.
Mayor Harvey D. Jones announced this week that a public hearing will address the pet policy for the city. Details on time and location were not provided in the fragment.
Winters Boy Scout Troop 49 held a Court of Honor Monday evening at 7:30 in the Scout Hut. Awards were presented to Mike Hays Ricky Robinson John Craven Biff White David BurotaS or Fetes Jimmie.
Two days remain of the annual spring clean-up week in Winters. The Winters Chamber of Commerce designated April 16 21 for residents to gather rubbish and place it for truck collection. City and County trucks will pick up trash Thursday Friday and Saturday and haul it to the dump grounds. Residents with extra large loads should call the Chamber or City Hall for special arrangements and to report missed pickups. Only authorized persons may unload at the city dump and private hauling requires special authorization.
The First Baptist Church will host a three day revival Friday through Sunday April 27 29 led by Rev Jerry Don Reynolds a ministerial student from Hardin Simmons University who previously served as a missionary in Cleveland Ohio Youth departments will supervise church operations on April 29 and Jerry Sneed will be youth pastor with Bob Shoemake as organist The lesson will be taught to youth teachers by Rev B T Shoemake on the previous Wednesday night.
A local assembly at Seonah Bay will persist through the evening as discussions on the proposed project proceed. Officials from the planning board and neighborhood associations attend, addressing resident concerns and potential impacts on traffic and shoreline use.
The Rev. Edgar H. Graham longtime pastor of the First Breathyfacings Church in Childress since 1957 will move to Winters after Easter. He will have served chaplain duties in World War II and then led local churches six years in Childress and six in San Antonio. He has active roles in Plains Presbytery Rotary Club Childress Fire Department ministerial group and county ministers association. Mrs. Graham has worked with Westminster Fellowship and church women groups.
The Runnels County A and M Club plans the annual Aggie Muster for former Texas A and M students living in the county. The 1962 event will occur April 21 in Ballinger City Park, starting at 6 30 PM, honoring Aggies and Texans who served the state.
The annual Jaycee sired Quarter Horse Show opens at John Norman’s Lazy N Stables in Winters on Saturday April 21. AQHA and QHA of West Texas sanction the event with Charley Curley of Pierre SD as judge and John McAdoo as manager. Show starts 8 30 a m with halter and performance classes awarding trophies, ribbons, buckles, and jackpot prizes for cutting and roping.
Evelyn Hudgins of Alpine and formerly Winters has been named a cheerleader at Sul Ross State College for 1962 63. She cheered at Winters High School from freshman to senior year and represented Sul Ross during the Sun Carnival events in El Paso from December 26 to January 1. Evelyn earned a place on the Dean’s List in the first semester. Her father managed the West Texas Utilities local office before a recent transfer to Alpine.
The local Chamber of Commerce reports 22 new members since the drive began on March 22. Mrs. B B Bedoord, secretary-manager, says several cards remain to be turned in and will boost membership further. New signups include Hart TV Service Edwin Hart Winters Hardware Alien Wright Kraatz Plumbing Shop Robert Boots Kraatz Alderman Cave Milling Grain Co Ray Alderman Thomas Rental Service H W Thomas Halliburton Co F F Hamilton Winters Paint Body Shop T Sprinkle Tibs Well Service Tib McCuiston Clem Welding Shop Clem Rozmen Benson Auto Parts Alvin Benson.
Winters High School lists twenty students on the honor roll for the fifth six weeks of the 1961-62 year. Students achieved averages of 99 or higher across subjects. Seniors included Jimmy Johnson, Bob Shoemake, Collier Randolph, Edward Pope. Juniors named Jane Matthews, Bernard Adams, Eugene Mathis, Linda White, Jer Elliott, Rosalene Lott, Wanna Powers, Linda Reid, Bteeche, and Yvonne Pierce.
Barbara Bolden received the Diversity Club silver award for Outstanding Senior Homemaking. The presentation occurred Thursday at the Glenn home, with Mrs. Sam Jones as club president. Barbara, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gerhart of Wilmeth, heard the program Youth's Way For The Future, as Mrs. G. E. Wilson introduced Mr. W. B. Middleton, science instructor at the local high school.
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