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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1970
Page
5
A Winters Arizona column urges careful auto security during the holidays noting unlocked cars with packages invite thefts and urging trunk use and keys taken. It warns residents to lock doors when away from home and to verify door-to-door sellers and contractors to avoid scams this season.
The record shows high of 66 degrees on Tuesday December 2 1969 and a low of 27 degrees on Sunday December 7 1967. This item compares historical temperature extremes for the week and notes dates and values.
The Winters High School concert band and choir present Christmas In Texas on Monday night in the WHS gym at 7 30 p m. Director Kirke McKenzie leads a 98 member band performing Christmas and march music. The choir offers mostly Christmas selections marking its first public performance of the year. The Band Sweetheart for 1970 71 will be crowned during the event. The program lasts about 45 minutes.
Winters annual Chamber of Commerce Christmas Parade drew large crowds with three Winters Public Schools bands, floats, and kiddie divisions. Santa greeted children after the event at 133 West Dale Street as sunshine and brisk winds kept spirits high. Cash prizes were awarded to top float and band entries in both divisions.
The Winters Livestock and Agricultural Association announced December 15 as the entry deadline for the annual Winters Junior Livestock Show. Entries must be submitted by 5 p.m. on official blanks from Stanley Blackwell or County Agent C. T. Parker. late or improper forms will not be accepted. The show, for FFA and 4-H members and other youths of North Runnels County, will be held January 9 at the Winters Livestock Show barn and is expected to be a large event.
George M. Beard principal of Winters Primary and Elementary Schools attended a Counseling Guidance In-Service workshop in Brady on Tuesday. The event was sponsored by the San Angelo Educational Service Center, of which Winters School is a member.
Ronald H. Sadler, 24, son of Mr and Mrs James Sadler of Novice, was promoted to Army Sergeant while serving with the 13th Support Brigade at Ft Hood. A section chief in the 190th Heavy Equipment Maintenance Company of the Brigade's 169th Maintenance Battalion, he entered the Army in January 1967 and was last stationed in Germany. His wife Vicki lives in Coperas Cove. He is a 1964 graduate of Novice High School.
Winters Public Schools will dismiss Friday December 18 for the Christmas holidays. Classes resume Monday January 4 on regular schedule.
Congressman Omar Burleson will be the speaker at the Winters Chamber of Commerce annual banquet on February 12. J W Bahlman, head of the banquet speaker committee, announced the plan Wednesday morning.
Washington D C congressman Omar Burleson announces a $146,259.84 Office of Education grant to Texas for 997 children in Runnels County ages 5 to 17 from low income families. Funds are provided for fiscal year 1971 under Part A Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
Ross Anderson of Winters will be a candidate for the Bachelor of Science in Agriculture Education at Tarleton State College in Stephenville. The graduation exercises are set for Sunday, December 20 in the main auditorium. Tarleton registrar John Whiting announced 134 students will graduate, with Anderson listed as a candidate.
Winters High School boys basketball participates in the Lone Wolf tournament in Colorado City with 14 teams. The Blizzards open against Ballinger on Thursday night at 8 p.m. The Friday schedule includes the Stanton Colorado City B winner. Other Thursday games feature Merkel vs Crane Lake View vs Denver City Stamford vs Sweetwater and Post vs Colorado City A. Brownwood and Floydada have byes.
The Winters City Council will cover all downtown street meters during Christmas and New Year holidays. Meters will be covered from December 14 through January 3, said City Secretary Buford Baldwin.
Runnels County taxpayers who got state ments for 1970 county taxes also received voter registration card applications. The forms, requiring only a signature, are to be returned to the county tax assessor’s office for certificates. January 31, 1971, is the deadline. others may obtain applications at Winters sub office or Ballinger Collector’s office.
Officers and delegates from Runnels County Farmers Union attended the 67th annual Texas Farmers Union Convention in Amarillo December 3 5. Speakers included Sen Ralph Yarborough Tony Dechant and Jay Naman with district officers named and awards announced for membership and service agents.
Winters residents are invited to a Civic Betterment meeting at the Winters Community Center Friday December 11 at 7 30 p m. The session will explain city school and hospital district operations and invite questions and ideas for continued area progress.
Congressman Omar Burleson wins committee action to allow waivers of the around the clock registered nurse requirement for access hospitals. The goal is to ease Medicare qualification burdens on small rural hospitals by permitting annual, area based waivers through HEW, with safeguards and a 1974 sunset.
O. J. Murray of Winters was appointed District Deputy Grand High Priest of District 33, Grand Royal Arch Masons, Texas, at the Grand Royal Arch of Texas meeting in Waco on December 1. The district covers Winters Coleman Santa Anna and Brownwood. Murray is a former master of Winters Lodge and held several royal arch and council posts, and serves as assistant postmaster of the Winters Post Office.
Four Winters area students joined the McMurry College band on a West Texas tour December 26. The trip marked Dr. Raymond Bynum’s 25th year as band director, a career that began with organizing Texas’ first all student high school band.
Larry H. Rives aged 24, son of Dr. and Mrs. C. T. Rives of Winters, has been promoted to first lieutenant. He serves as a Logistics Officer at Headquarters U S Army Materiel Command Europe in Zweibruecken Germany. He is a 1965 Winters High School graduate and earned a 1969 psychology BA from the University of Texas. He is married to Paula Smith of Lufkin.
Wingate Independent School will present The True Meaning of Christmas on Tuesday December 15 at 7 p m in the school auditorium. Grades 1-2 Santa's Magic Touch directed by Mrs Rita Alcorn. 3-4 The Fairy Tree directed by Mrs Kathleen Shedd. 5-6 Christmas Around the World directed by Mrs Barbara Hesl. 7-8 Coke Party 1970 directed by Mrs Callie Dean.
Private First Class Rickey W. Boles son of Mr and Mrs Monroe Boles of Winters has reported for a tour in Vietnam. He is a chart operator in five directional control with C Battery 514th Artillery near Tuong Fri South Vietnam. He is a 1964 Winters High School and 1969 Tarleton State College graduate who taught vocational agriculture in Holcomb Kansas before joining the Army June 1 1970.
Winters Warehouse reported 11 520 bales of the 1970 cotton crop brought to four North Runnels County gins on Monday. Stripping should finish before Christmas due to dry weather. last year 2 788 bales had arrived, harvest delayed by wet weather.
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