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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1960
Page
5
Governor advised on needed funds as the Statewide Advisory Committee on Aging reports county estimates for a couple at 1500 to 2500 dollars and a single elder at 1000 to 1500 yearly. About 4000 people joined the grass roots survey shaping the Austin conference and future White House projections.
Texas vital statistics chief W. D. Carroll warns of a flood of birth certificate requests as 262000 children enter Texas schools this fall. Parents urged to apply now with child name birth date birth place mother’s maiden name and father’s name to local registrar or the State Department of Health.
Mrs. H. L. Cowsert of Waco visited the Buckners over the weekend, staying at their Buckner home.
Mr and Mrs Z C Falls and their son Robert Clayton returned to their Austin home after spending several days visiting Mrs Falls sister Mrs Harvey D Jones and family in town
Mr. and Mrs. Harry London returned Tuesday from a visit with his brother Mr. and Mrs. Jack London in Alhambra California. They spent their vacation fishing in Oregon during the trip.
Homer Near of Phoenix Arizona spends time at the home of Mrs. Mattie Simpson and Velma in a brief local social visit noting ordinary courtesy and neighborhood ties.
Mr and Mrs James Walker Allen of Wingate celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday August 7, 1960, at home with children and relatives present. Lula May Devore Allen, born 1894 in Alabama, and James Walker Allen, born 1890, married August 7, 1910, and both long time Wingate residents active in the community and Church of Christ.
The Abilene Junior Chamber of Commerce will sponsor a Seminar Against Communism at the VFW hall on Saturday August 13. William P. Strube Jr secretary of the Anti Communist Christian Crusade will lead the lecture series with registration at 8 45 a m and three seminar sessions to follow. Attendees are invited to hear as much of the program as possible. Strube is presented as an authority on the evils of communism and its methods of fighting it.
The column shares playful quotes from a local lad choosing to yell in church over listening, and notes a sociologist’s prediction of world population reaching 50 billion in 200 years with one person per square foot of land in 800 years, urging thoughts on compact living.
Ballinger Soil Conservation Office reports 86 applications totaling 52 360 acres under the Great Plains Conservation Program with 45 on hand covering 20 612 acres and 22 contracts prepared for 9 215 acres. Contracts total 70 604 dollars in cost share to aid producers in reseeding 2050 acres to permanent grass and re seeding 2500 acres of rangeland to grass. Officials say the program speeds adoption of approved conservation plans to stabilize agriculture on the Great Plains.
A compiled list shows several landowners and parcel sizes in the Winters region, including John Mitchell 158 acres, James B Nevins 322 acres, J F Nevins 1 200 acres, Jack Pritchard 148 acres, Morris Robinson 278 acres, and Joe B Wilson 325 acres, with other parcels noted on routes 1 and 2. Also free football stickers advertised at Western Auto Itc.
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