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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1961
Page
6
Winters police urge residents to secure homes during absences and while away, noting burglaries often target gardens and premises. They warn about strangers and loiterers, recommend leaving lights on, locking exterior doors, and asking neighbors to check mail or pickup handbills during trips.
Diana Roper named valedictorian of Winters High School 1961 graduation. Jean Seals is the salutatorian and Tommy Webb holds the highest grade average. Roper 95.91 over four years, Seals 94.24, Webb 93.46. Roper active in FHA Student Council basketball tennis volleyball and Girls State. Seals earned multiple letters in basketball volleyball and tennis and NHS member. Webb transferred from Alpine in 1959 and serves as class vice president and student council representative.
Winters High School band joins 57 other West Central Texas ensembles at McMurry College Abilene for the Region II UIL band and choir contest April 27 29. Director Fred Steffey chairs. Dr. Raymond T. Bynum assists with logistics. Concert and sight reading events run April 27 to 29 featuring multiple area high schools and junior highs.
Jimmy Smith and John Keys of Texas Tech spent the weekend visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith in Lubbock.
A Winters girls softball team sponsored by Tibs Well Servicing fields players such as Jean Peterson and Ella Peterson. Managers Howard Thomas and Veda McCuistion lead a squad joining Ballinger league with two Ballinger teams Bronte and Winters. Games at Ballinger Little League Field with schedule to be announced. Practice Fridays at 4 PM at the school field north of Blizzard stadium.
Winters Lions Club netted about $163.00 in their annual broom sale conducted Tuesday of last week. Proceeds will go to the club treasury to support sight conservation work in the community and aid crippled children at the Texas Lions Crippled Children's Camp in Kerrville and other service projects.
A. L. Mitchell and Lou Awalt from Winters High School have been selected to represent Winters at the American Legion Boys State and Girls State in Austin this summer. Mitchell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Audra L. Mitchell, is a footballer, Student Council vice president and 1961-62 student body president, with National Honor Society membership. Awalt, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Awalt, serves on Student Council as secretary-treasurer, and stars on basketball volleyball and tennis teams, with All-District basketball and district tennis singles titles and National Honor Society membership.
The Winters Lions Club directs a meeting Friday at 6 30 AM at Pierce Cafeteria. All directors and interested members are urged to attend.
Winters Chief of Police Joe Stevens announced April 30 through May 6 as Burglary Prevention Week in cooperation with the state program led by Governor Price Daniel and the Texas Police Association. He urged homeowners to adopt simple precautions during absences and noted 14 burglaries since January 1, calling for community cooperation and a planned vacation watch to check homes daily.
Winters Veterans of Foreign Wars will observe National VFW Week from April 30 to May 6 featuring Religious Freedoms Day and Loyalty Day on April 30 and May 1. Other events include Community Service Day May 2, Jobs for Disabled Veterans Day May 3, National Home Day May 4, Youth Activities Day May 5, and an overseas veteran open house May 6. Merchants are urged to display the flag on Loyalty Day May 1.
A weekend meeting at the Wingate Church of Christ runs from Friday April 2 at 7:30 p.m. to Sunday April 30. Delos Johnson of Midland will speak. Sunday services are 10:30 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.
The Baptist Theological Seminary Chapel Choir of California directed by Dr. Carlyle D Bennett will present a concert at 8 p m this week. The twenty member choir will perform selections by the chapel choir vocal trio men s chorus and a tenor choir with the venue located at the chapel.
Winters Civil Defense Unit heads to Operation Alert 1961 with local fire and rescue teams. The drill runs Friday from 3 to 3 30 p m with radio silence on all stations except 640 and 1240 KC while civilians practice survival procedures.
In its first regular meeting the Winters City Council ordered warrants for unpaid parking violations to be issued starting May 1. The panel approved buying two dissinriminators to boost water purification capacity, plus a tractor with ditch-digger loader and mower, a new 1961 Chevrolet police car, and installation of a central heating and cooling unit at City Hall.
The Winters High School Student Council was elected Wednesday morning. A L Mitchell becomes president for 1961 62 with Jerry Dunn as vice president and Lou Awalt as secretary treasurer. Dan Roberts is pianist and Roy John Clark song leader.
Hugo Vogelsang, chairman of the Valley Creek Water Control District, said landowners will be asked to permit Soil Conservation Service planning party members access to farms and accompanying areas to perform emergency surveys. District surveys aim to shape work plans reducing future flood damage, with contact to occur within a few days.
Ratna Gyaur joins Ott and Janine with Deanne and Mik in a multi person collaboration. The group appears to be planning a joint event or project. Details remain fragmented but the names indicate a concert or community initiative. Local coverage notes possible performances or collaborations.
In Runnels County three research and promotional cotton council meetings will be held starting May 2 at Pierce's Cafeteria Winters Miles City Hall and Rowena Fire Station. 8 pm programs feature Gene Woodman of the National Cotton Council with a film on industry advances and strategies against synthetic fibers and substitutes.
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