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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1972
Page
5
The author laments the end of Burma Shave signs under the Texas Highway Beautification Act. By December 31, advertisers must obtain permits and post bonds, with rules forbidding signs within 660 feet of interstates and mandating bureaucratic sizing and wording. The piece contrasts formal control with nostalgic roadside signage.
A local basketball schedule lists events from Nov 30 to Dec 9, including Clyde Tournament for Boys A and Girls A, Coleman girls 8th and B, Coleman Boys 8th 9th, Coleman Boys A B Girls A, Clyde Boys 8th and Girls 8th, HSU Tournament Girls A, Ballinger Tournament Boys A. The entries specify locations here and dates across Dec 4 to Dec 9.
Weather log lists daily totals for November 1972 including 0.38 on Nov 1 0.25 on Nov 13 0.16 on Nov 24 and 0.08 on Nov 25 with trace amounts on Nov 2.
The Literary and Service Club presents Hats and History a nostalgia filled program on millinery from 1876 to 1972 at Winters High School auditorium Friday December 8 at 730 pm. Claudia KoobsFort Worth Sperry and Hutchinson Company will narrate with period songs by the Preachers Quartet and a fashion parade led by Mrs Dennis Poe. A voluntary offering will help cover production costs.
Christmas gift drive aids about 500 patients at the San Angelo Center in Carlsbad Texas. Winters coordinators Mrs H L Speer Mrs John Gardner and Mrs George R Hill urge donors to bring only new unwrapped items by December 5. Volunteers will wrap gifts and accept clothing grooming items games toys stationery stamps cards coffee mugs and jewelry.
The North Runnels Hospital special equipment fund grows to $65,554 with $367.50 added recently. Ban in place for cornerstone by Jim Jones and Ted Meyer of Ballinger Monument Co. Rosestone stone to read North Runners Hospital 1973 Erected to Serve Suffering Humanity.
The Winters Lions Club heard a noon briefing on the Texas Lions Camp for Crippled Children in Kerrville and the Texas Lions Camp for Diabetic Children near Friendswood. Roscoe Smith described both facilities and slides. the Kerrville camp began in 1953 hosting 236 youths and now serves thousands, with the Kerrville site also acting as a rehabilitation center during nine months.
Mr and Mrs Johns Golting spent the Thanksgiving holidays with friends and relatives in Corpus Christi, enjoying the family gathering and local hospitality during the extended visit.
City officials on Tuesday announced that leaves will be collected only if raked into boxes or bags and placed at the curb or in alleys. Sanitation and street crews will not pick up loose piles and residents are urged not to burn leaves due to fire and air pollution hazards.
The Ladies Golf Association will hold a bazaar and rummage sale on Friday and Saturday from 8:30 to 5 in the Tinkle Building on South Main Street. Christmas items and ideas will be available.
Chief Joe Stevens reports one juvenile apprehended and charged with burglary at Key Filling Station and Holcombe Barbershop. Suspect handed to county juvenile authorities. About $9 stolen from the filling station and about $25 from the barber shop.
Mr and Mrs Felton Jackson and their daughter Tammy departed Sunday to Malta in the Mediterranean to reside for two years. Felton Jackson works for Inter Air Drilling Co Tripoli Libya on his third contract in the region. Mrs Jackson is Bobbie Sue King daughter of Mr and Mrs R D King of Winters.
Thanksgiving guests included Royce Bridwell and wife of Seal Beach California and Ollie Raymer of Coleman visiting at the home of Mr and Mrs W T Bridwell.
The Winters Christmas Parade is set for Friday at 4 p m with four Winters school bands led by the High School Blizzard Marching Band. Prizes totaling 50 30 and 20 will be awarded in the float division and 15 10 and 5 in the kiddies division. Registration is urged at the Chamber of Commerce office.
Winters City Council approved an 8 percent basic rate hike for Lone Star Gas, effective on the first thousand cubic feet and graduated thereafter for both residential and commercial users. The company had sought 10 percent, but the council settled on 8 percent and reserved right to adjust gas rates. Buford Baldwin, city secretary, stated the increase will appear on upcoming bills.
Tom Hunt of Coleman will present an income tax reporting program for farmers and ranchers at the Winters Young Farmers meeting on December 4 at 7:30 p m in the long building. Members are urged to submit reports of all fruit sales to Stanley Blackwell or Charles Allcorn by December 1.
Nearly 400 bales of 1972 cotton were delivered from North Runnels gins to Winters Warehouse over the weekend, bringing the seasonal tally to 3466 bales.
A recount of the November 7 election for Runnels County Tax Assessor Collector confirms B. J. Farmer of Ballinger won with 1423 votes to WaRue McWilliams 1399. McWilliams conceded after the count, with the recount committee noting no change in totals.
Winters Lions Club launches a project to gather new unused gifts for inmates of Abilene State School. Members will bring toys clothing and other items to the December 5 meeting for forwarding to the school. Non members may contribute via Lions Club members. Checks or money orders go to the Volunteer Services Council. Gift ideas include grooming items games stationery candy and clothing.
James D. Hall of Bangs purchases Foodway Grocery & Market in Winters from Kimbell Foods Inc. The Halls assume management, Curtis Riddle transfers to a Kimball store, and Sonny plans to rename to Sonny's Grocery & Market with no major policy changes. The couple, six sons including one in the Air Force, are Baptist Church members.
Don E. Roach of General Aviation Industries argues against General Telephone of San Angelo seeking another rate increase. He notes dial system failures in Winters and outages affecting Fort Worth and long distance calls during Air Force contract talks, calling for service improvements before any raise is approved.
The Winters City Council approved from Fairbanks Morse a 1365 KW dual fuel engine and generator for the City Electric Department. Installed last summer, it has run for weeks and will be paid by revenue bonds at a cost of 222000 dollars, replacing two 200 KW engines.
Plans to reorganize two Runnels County divisions of the American Heart Association were made at a San Angelo workshop led by Bob Nowlin, regional director. One chapter will be in Ballinger and the other in Winters. Winters shows more interest now, but Ballinger locals may join.
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