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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1962
Page
1
Thirty years ago the second annual Charity Carnival by the American Legion opened for two days with free admission. Proceeds funded free milk and wholesome lunches for school children in the Legion Lunchroom. A $625 check arrived to the Legion Auxiliary from the federal government. The article notes labor costs and local business changes in 1932 Winters.
The 1937 high school Band Sweetheart reveal was slated for that night during a high school play. The choral club under Mrs. C. S. Jackson planned a Christmas Cantata at the Methodist Church that week.
Twenty three reservists report for duty in 1942 as Lt. C. T. Rives is promoted to Captain in the Coast Artillery Medical Detachment. Texas farms without electricity, Pearl Harbor Bond Drive advances, Christmas Home Lighting Contest held with no prizes, cotton quota vote planned, slaughtered animals reported to OPA, and a high honor roll noted for area students.
The Federal Land Bank of Houston will cut interest on loans outstanding above 5 percent to 5 percent effective January 1 1963. New loans stay 5 1/2 percent. loans closed after December 1 1962 will be billed at 5 percent temporarily. Bank President Hal Weatherford says over 100 million in existing loans exceed 5 percent and 1963 savings to Texas farmers and ranchers will exceed half a million dollars. The bank operates through 73 associations in Texas, including Ballinger in Runnels County chaired by R. H. Emery with officers J. E. Blackwell Paul Pruitt W. P. Keeling Wesley Wood Clyde Flanagan.
Intermediate Troop No. 10 met in the Presbyterian Church basement for a regular meeting. The group opened with singing and conducted patrol meetings with attendance and dues checked. A Court of Honor was held and a Christmas Party set for December 17 along with a penny sidewalk hike next week.
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post voted to contribute fifty dollars to the Civil Defense Siren project at the regular meeting. Reports from fund raising chair Mrs N D Waggoner and community service chair Mrs W L Collins were heard. A Christmas party for veterans children was announced for December 20 at the Post Home and groceries will be given to needy families on December 21.
The Veterans Administration plans to pay over $327 million in regular and special 1963 dividends to NSLI and USGLI policyholders, with $222 million in regular dividends and a $90 million World War II special dividend. Payments are to be completed in January 1963, using an accelerated timetable.
Sherry Stanford led the Sub Deb Club in a Questions and Answers program at the home of Mr and Mrs John Puckett Monday night. June Puckett acted as hostess during the meeting, and the group held a business session afterward.
VA officials said the fund is ample to meet insurance program needs and that the dividend payment is automatic. They warned veterans and families that sending correspondence could delay disbursement.
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