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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1971
Page
8
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A listing of required materials for Winters Elementary School students. The document covers kindergarten through eighth grade, detailing pencils crayons paper notebooks rulers glue scissors and assorted items by grade with several brand examples and quantities.
West Texas ranchers report grasshoppers swarming fields then turkey flocks move in to feed. Texas Parks and Wildlife biologists say turkeys can derive up to 90 percent of their diet from grasshoppers from June to September, and even in winter when insects are scarce.
Abilene State Park hosted a Wilson family reunion on Sunday with attendees from Dallas Hawley Anson Winters Abilene and Ovale. Participants included Gerald Gunn Tony Doris Bellew Earnest Wilson Harold Wilson Billy Joyce Ann Harville G C Harville Don Wilson Mitzi Mitchell Blackwood Winford Reel and others.
Exotic white winged pheasants from Afghanistan were released in the Trans-Pecos near Balmorhea this month. Tom Hailey of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said four farms were chosen for a 390 bird shipment with a 97 percent survival rate except for one male and ten females. An additional release of about 400 Afghan birds is planned for August.
Local notes list visitors to Crews area households including Cecil Hambright Brandon Lopez Johnny Lopez Haz el Dietz Coleman Foreman and others. Crews Homecoming is set for Sunday August 8 at the Crews Community Gym with lunch and fellowship for all.
Texas health officials urge correct processing and handling of foods to prevent botulism. They warn that improper home canning and cold pack methods can fail to kill botulism spores, with thousands of cases linked to canned vegetables and meats. The piece stresses using pressure canning and notes odor is not a reliable spoilage indicator.
Catherine Lois Bahlman and Jimmy Mack Dukes married in a July 31 double ring ceremony at Norton Church of Christ. Hollis Talley officiated. The bride, daughter of R. R. and Mrs. Bahlman of Winters, wore a lace trimmed crepe gown with mantilla. Groom Jim Dukes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dukes of Abilene, is a Church of Christ minister in San Angelo. A reception followed at Norton Community Center. bridesmaids and guests participated in blue and white decor. The bride is a Winters High School senior. the groom is a 1965 Wylie High School graduate.
The French government paid 625 dollars to acquire Whistler’s portrait depicting his mother. The sale underscores a collector’s demand for the painter’s intimate works and enhances museum holdings.
Mr and Mrs Leroy Timms of 503 East Stanford Lubbock celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary with an open house Sunday August 8 from 2 to 5 pm at 1901 45th Street Lubbock Hosted by their sons and daughters the couple have seven sons and eight daughters fifty three grandchildren and nine great grandchildren One son Weldon Timms is deceased Host family includes J B Timms Nita Condra Zack Timms Frances Long Gene Timms Cleta Abnes Dollard Bullard Travis Timms Junior Timms Pearl Shelton Nancy Coppedge Ray Timms Alvin Timms Rita Thompson and Billy Timms.
Mr and Mrs Preston Barker express gratitude for cards gifts and remembrances sent to their daughter Debra after a broken leg and during her hospital stay and after returning home. They especially thank hospital nurses and Dr Rives.
A playful linguist proposes a punny cure for the caro me driver by turning the phrase into a rebus. The lighthearted item riffs on spelling and pronunciation to spark a quick laugh.
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