Winters High School Camp Prepares 34 Players For Fall Season
The Winters area hosts 34 football hopefuls and coaches in a weeklong training camp at the high school stadium. Coach L. G. Wilson leads drills to toughen players, with early scrimmages and soreness days as the squad tunes for the season ahead. The team travels to Angelo on Sept. 3 to face Lake View and hosts Anson on Blizzard Field Sept. 9, with last year’s starters limited to three. Nearby, maize shipments from Winters reach 104 carloads, while lingering international tensions and sonic boom debates surface in the news.
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L. G. Wilson
Wilson
William Grissom
Joel Butts
Pee Wee Williams
Angelo
Lake View
Anson
Blizzard Field
Blizzard Band Plans Preseason Practice And Debut
Winters High School band director Robert R. Gans said the Blizzard band will continue practice next week on Monday through Wednesday before school starts on Thursday September 1. The first public appearance is set for the Lake View football game Saturday September 3, requiring full attendance at the final week of summer practice.
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Winters High School
Robert R. Gans
Blizzard
Lake View
Gospel Meeting Opens at Shep Church of Christ
A gospel meeting at the Shep Church of Christ runs from Sunday August 21 to Sunday August 28. Roy V. Palmer of Abilene will preach and a basket lunch will be served at the community house on August 28. The public is invited to attend.
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Shep Church
Hodges Family Guests Visit Hodges Home
In Hodges home Mr. and Mrs. Joe Howard and Ann and Jan of Midland join St. and Mrs. Jimmy Hodges and daughter Pam of Harlingen visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Crockett Hodges.
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Joe Howard
Ann
Jan
Midland
Jimmy Hodges
Pam
Harlingen
Crockett Hodges
Mrs Bill Proctor At Fort Worth With Sister
Mrs Bill Proctor is in Fort Worth at the bedside of her sister Mrs Lillie A Miller in a local hospital or home setting awaiting medical updates.
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Fort Worth
Bill Proctor
Lillie A. Miller
Winters High School Blizzards begin second week of training
Winters High School football continues summer drills with 34 players and coaches camping at the stadium. The first game is scheduled against Lake View on September 3 at there, with a stated schedule through November 11 including matchups against Lakeview Anson Brady Albany Hamlin Colorado City Ranger Coleman Cisco Ballinger.
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Lake View
Lakeview
Anson
Brady
Albany
Hamlin
Colorado City
Ranger
Coleman
Cisco
Ballinger
Gottschalk to Leave Tuesday for Germany for teaching post
Adolph Hans Gottschalk 32 son of Mr and Mrs Hans Gottschalk will depart Tuesday August 23 for Germany to teach commercial subjects in the American Army Dependent School He will fly via Abilene Newark New Jersey to Frankfurt and expects a twelve month assignment He is a Korean War veteran and bachelor with a 1954 BA in business administration and in 1956 set to receive an MEd from Sul Ross College.
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Adolph Hans Gottschalk
Hans Gottschalk
Germany
Abilene
Newark
New Jersey
Frankfort
Gottschalk
W. M. Minzenmayer
Winters
Winters High School
Corp of Engineers
Texas Lutheran College
Sul Ross College
McMurry College
Texas Tech
Lubbock
University of Texas
Austin
Cuero
Olton
Bill Ahrens
Hatchell
Edward
Ballinger
Richard Gottschalk
Veterans Hospital
Bedford Injured After Car Crash Near Kerrville
B. B. Bedford, an oil firm employee, suffered two broken ribs in a Sunday early morning crash near Kerrville. He said he fell asleep at the wheel, woke as his car hit a highway post, turned sharply, and the vehicle toppled into a ravine before he could regain control. He is convalescing at home.
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B. B. Bedford
Kerrville
Bedford
Oil Firm
Winters Photographer Eddie Little Has Exhibit in Chicago Show
Eddie Little of Winters has a photo titled Tex selected by the Professional Photographers of America for display at the 69th Annual Exhibition in Chicago August 7 12 1960. The selection marks Little’s third consecutive year with a national exhibit among some 1000 prints accepted from 5000 submitted.
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Eddie Little
Heights St
Winters
Professional Photographers of America, Inc
Little
Conrad Hilton Hotel
Chicago
Ill
Adolph Minzenmayer
Route 3
Ppofa
Winters man produces first 1960 cotton bale
Louis Hord Gins the first 1960 cotton bale ginned by local mills eight miles northwest of Winters. He delivered to Citizens Gin, bale weighed 1 490 pounds with 350 pounds lint. Ginned free with a $50 chamber award. Last year’s first bale was produced August 24 on the Mrs. Carrie Young farm by Robert Pruser.
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Louis Hord
Winters
Claude Tatum
Winters Chamber of Commerce
Hord
Carrie Young
Robert Pruser
Winters Man Helps Rescue Truck Driver
Gulf Oil foreman W. M. Bunger of Winters aided in freeing Bruce Green of Wichita Falls after a gasoline truck jackknifed and overturned on US 277 near Abilene. Bunger, with two Abilene men, sawed the steering column to release the trapped driver amid spilled fuel and danger of fire.
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Gulf Oil Corp
W. M. Bunger
Gulf
U. S. Highway 277
Abilene
Bruce Green
Wichita Falls
Bunger
Green
Wingate
Wedding of Sharla Martin and Kenneth Kim Brough
Mr and Mrs J C Martin attended the wedding of their niece Sharla Martin and Kenneth Kim Brough held in Mineral Wells on August 12 pairing a family celebration with the local community event.
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J. C. Martin
Sharla Martin
Kenneth Kimbrough
Mineral Wells
Registration Opens for Winters ISD Students 1960
Winters Independent School District schedules fall 1960 registrations. Pre registered high school students receive schedules by August 24 with changes August 25 26. New high school registrants join August 26. Elementary enrollment runs August 22 26 with grades 4 8 advised. Sept 1 starts for returning grades 4 8 and 1 2 3 new entrants. Labor Day Sept 5 holiday. meals begin Sept 1 with 30 to 35 cent prices.
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Winters Independent
Rodney Cathey
Winters High School
Winters
James B. Nevins
Wingate Schools Open Sept 1 for 1960-61 Term
Wingate announces the 1960-61 school year begins Thursday September 1 with a full day schedule. A faculty workshop August 31 precedes an 8 am assembly for the public. Holidays include Labor Day September 5 and Thanksgiving, with Christmas break from December 2 at 2 pm to January 2.
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Wingate
A. Dooley
Nina Cowan
Mildred Dooley
Oren Dunn
Faye Pinegar
Cemetery Working At Wilmeth Cemetery
A cemetery working is scheduled all day Thursday August 25 at Wilmeth Cemetery. Attendees are asked to bring a basket lunch to the Baptist Church and the entire community is urged to attend.
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Wilmeth
Baptist Church
Visitors from Snyder weekend stay with local hosts
Dr. and Mrs. R. D. English of Snyder spent the weekend in the home of Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Craig.
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Snyder Dr
R. D. English
Snyder
J. H. Craig
Bailey McCaughan Family Visit Spotted in Killeen
Mr and Mrs Bailey McCaughan of Killeen are visiting relatives and friends.
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Killeen
Bailey McCaughan
Mac
Farm Bureau Barbecue Set for August 25 at Ballinger Park
The Runnels County Farm Bureau barbecue at Ballinger city park next Thursday night August 25 will feature entertainment by Deana Kozelsky Sharon Denson and Manuel Arispe with J H West state Farm Bureau president as speaker. Joe Havlak and his Western Playboys provide music Richard Perry of Ballinger offers special tunes. Bob McGarvey hosts with Mrs J L Roach at the organ. An eightgirl Farm Bureau contest includes Frances Saunders Winters Shirley Ehrig Francene Stranch Barbara Stubblefield Linda Condra Arlene Jost Rowena Pat Redman and Sue Parker.
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Runnels County Farm Bureau
Ballinger City Park
Deana Kozelsky
Joe Kozelsky
Sharon Denson
J. B. Denson
Manuel Arispe
J. H. West
Farm Bureau
Joe Havlak
Western Playboys
Richard Perry
Ballinger
Bob McGarvey
J. L. Roach
Frances Saunders
Winters
Shirley Ehrig
Miles
Francene Stranch
Barbara Stubblefield
Valley View
Linda Condra
Talpa
Arlene Jost
Rowena
Pat Redman
Sue Parker
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Thom
J. C. Jarrell
Khrushchev
Lumumba
Air Force
Strategic Air Command
Offutt Air Force Base
Nebraska
Omaha
SAC
United States Deterrent Force
Carolyn Huckaby
Jerry Sneed
Gerald Elliott
David Rice
J. W. Aley
James Easterly
Shep Church of Christ
Hodges
WHS Blizzards
Adolph Gottschalk
Louis Hord Gins
Bale
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