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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1968
Page
5
A Texas survey shows average waste disposal ranges from four to six pounds per person daily, higher in metropolitan areas. Winters city faces rising costs for garbage pickup and disposal, raising residential and commercial fees to 1.50 and 3.00 per month, respectively, to maintain service.
Dr Elwin Skiles president of Hardin Simmons University will deliver the regular morning sermon at First Baptist Church Sunday April 28. The church pastor Rev Harry Grantz will be absent attending church oriented meetings in California.
The article describes new blue uniforms with gold stripes costing $14 each and notes a hitching post in the foreground. In the front row from left to right are John Curry Albert Spill Frank Adams Albert Roberts Charlie Adams and Emil Spill.
The Winters Brass Band marker dedication is scheduled for Sunday April 28 at 2 p m in front of the Scout Hut on North Main Abilene speaker Mrs L E Dudley a noted club woman The ceremony is led by the Runnels County Historical Survey Committee Rankin Pace is chairman George Garrett serves as master of ceremonies A Winters High School Band concert follows with Boy Scouts leading the pledge of allegiance Mayors Wade White offers welcome and clergy provide invocation and benediction The event also marks markers for Winters State Bank and Poe's Chapel The Brass Band helped shape Winters social life from 1901 onward and was central to early Texas cultural life with 200 brass bands once flourishing in the state The Winters band once toured in a band wagon and played tunes such as The Anvil Chorus Stars and Stripes Forever and Poet and Peasant
The Winters City Council passed a new garbage and refuse collection ordinance with rates set at 1.50 per month for residential units and not less than 3.00 per month for commercial premises. Outside city limits residences served by sanitation will pay commercial rates, with no changes to container size or type.
The Winters State Bank founded in 1906 by John Q. McAdams served as cashier for 17 years and as president until his death on March 31. It moved to its current site in 1909 after a brief relocation and expanded buildings in 1924 and 1954.
Winters area lands fostered growth with Poe's Chapel west of the city to be honored in a dedication. The site, now Poe Corner at a three highways intersection, sits in the Poe Oil Field first discovered March 22 1952. Named for William Wyatt Poe who came from Alabama in the late 1870s, his Runnels County land funded schools and the Poe family remained active in farming and civic life through the next generations.
The Winters City Council reorganized at a Monday night session in City Hall. Homer Hodge began his third two year term, W L Bean started his second term, and Bill Burns sworn in for first term while Ray Alderman retired after not seeking re election. Mayor Wade White administered oaths and Bean named mayor pro tem. Each alderman was assigned a department including Administration and Police under Mayor White, Electric under E E Vaughan, Hospital to Nolan Bahlman, Streets to Homer Hodge, and Sanitation and Parks to W L Bean.
Whitley Smith was elected commander of Winters Post 9193, Veterans of Foreign Wars, in a regular meeting at the Post Home. Other officers elected include M. L. Guy as senior vice commander Pete Eoff as junior vice commander W. L. Collins as quartermaster W. E. Arnold as judge advocate Ted Meyer as chaplain Dr Z J Hale as surgeon and E J Bishop as trustee No 3. Installment set for May 20 with J A Henderson as installing officer.
Fragmentary OCR notes mention a visit in Amarillo and a reference to Mrs Weldon Collins' daughter Sherri, suggesting a family gathering or reunion context without full details.
A field survey team urged the State Water and Soil Conservation boards to approve about 16 flood retarding dams on the Elm Creek watershed. The effort targets Bluff Creek and Elm Creek in Runnels and South Taylor counties and may include municipal storage and recreation sites pending further studies.
Rickey Marks and Dennis McBeth of the Winters FFA chapter received top honors at the annual Parent Son Banquet in the school cafeteria. Marks earned Outstanding Greenhand of the Year for his work with cattle sheep and swine including champion lamb and Brahman carcass awards. McBeth received the Outstanding Chapter award for leadership as president of the TM Coleman District FFA and for ongoing livestock feeder operations and breeding projects.
The Winters High School senior class presents the three act comedy January Thaw on Friday night in the high school auditorium at 8 p.m. Mrs. Mary L. Bauer directs. Cast includes Kye Nitsch Susan White Beverly Foster Sherri Bedford Jesse McGallian Lanny Bahlman Mary Lynn Pritchard Theresa Meyer Ricky Dry Bobby Briley Jimmy Gonzales Jimmy Vaughan and Linda Allen.
Jack Patton, candidate for County Commissioner in Runnels County Precinct 3, states he is a farmer stockman and longtime resident, promising to improve roads and county administration. He says the court's actions affect all residents and pledges to work for value received for every dollar spent while contacting voters before election day.
William Grissom longtime Winters coach and teacher resigns to join Floydada school system as part of their coaching staff effective at school year end. Carroll Tatum confirms, Grissom to Floydada after L G Wilson left for head coach role weeks earlier. Alvis Jackson, another Winters graduate and former Blizzard, will move to Floydada after coaching at Stamford.
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