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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1972
Page
5
Winters sub-office of the County Tax Collector offers 1972 license plates with April 1 deadline. Roy Crawford recalls early plate-making and 1917 rural mail routes. Voter registration rules change allow 30 days before elections. Vandalism spikes in Winters included broken windows and smashed signs. one arrest reported.
The record notes high temperatures of 70 degrees on Thursday February 4 and Saturday February 6, 1971, with a low of 8 degrees on Monday February 8, 1971, indicating a dramatic cold snap compared to the recent year.
January 4 0.12 inches. January 5 trace sleet. January 27 0.03 inches. January 28 0.02 inches. January 29 0.03 inches. Weather data record lists daily precipitation and sleet occurrence for the month.
Filing season ends with multiple races in Runnels County for the May primaries. Incumbent Parnell Legg Jr. seeks re nomination on the Democratic ticket, facing B J Farmer in the primary. GOP candidate Gordon Brookshire also seeks the Tax Assessor Collector post. Pat Pritchard faces Dalton Crockett in the Democratic Primary for County Commissioner Precinct 3. Republican Walter Oaken also filed. Precinct 3 redistricting shifts areas. Precinct 1 hosts a six way Democratic race with Barrett Bradshaw Brunson Estes Parker Smith. Incumbents Atkins Parrish Nabers seek reelection or face no opposition. Grant Jones and Tom Moore Jr Wiley will vie for State Senate and House seats respectively. Democratic Chairman Hathaway notes filings meet requirements.
The Winters ISD board extended for one year the contracts of High School Principal Jake Joyce Elementary Principal George M Beard and Business Manager Johnny B Smith through June 30 1974 Superintendent Carroll Tatum reported first semester 1971 72 average daily attendance 91323 95 32 percent of enrollment down from 932 96 56 percent year ago Tax collections reached 93 40 percent this year versus 93 15 percent last year
The Rev. Jimmy Massingill of Mineral Wells leads a revival at the Pentecostal Church of God. Services run nightly at 7:30 p m through the week with a youth night Friday inviting all local young people to attend.
Winters youths earned several placings at the Fort Worth Stock Show with swine and lamb entries. Kelly King placed third in the Duroc barrow class, Doug Rogers fifth in Hampshire barrow, Randall Kurtz seventeenth in Finewool lamb, Kathy Bredemeyer twelfth Southdown, Bull Bredemeyer fifteenth Dorsett, plus multiple Southdown, Crossbred, Shropshire, Corriedale, and Finewool placements. In Abilene, David Carey took sixth in Duroc barrow and Tobin Burns tenth. Bill Bredemeyer eighth in Dorsett lamb and Kathy Bredemeyer twentieth Southdown.
The Norton Lions Club hosts its second annual Farm Machinery Auction Saturday February 12 at the Norton Community Center. Auctioneering by Col Tex Herring of Abilene begins 10 30 a m with consignments received February 11. Proceeds support center upkeep and other community projects.
Mrs W W King and Mrs Joe Irvin spent Saturday visiting relatives in Midland.
Winters Classroom Teachers Association voted to send two delegates to the Texas Classroom Teachers Association State Convention at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Dallas February 17 to 19. In a called meeting revisions were adopted to the local constitution and by laws. Frances Bredemeyer presided. about 30 members attended.
Lawrence Guevara retired January 31 after twelve years in the Winters State Bank maintenance department, begun in August 1959. His son Jimmy Guevara will succeed him. A January 31 reception honored him with a gold watch and a diamond tie tack presented by bank personnel.
City Council plans a forthcoming election to approve a 1 percent Winters sales tax to supplement rising costs. May or White said a date will be set with a possible April 1 city election or a earlier special vote. If approved the tax would add about 30 to 35 thousand dollars annually to fund streets sewer work and services. City officials note property tax has not risen since 1958 and other cities of similar size already use sales taxes.
General Dynamics paid $800 for the reserve grand champion carcass owned by Rex Marks of Winters. The reserve champion, a Shorthorn, was exhibited at the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show in Fort Worth.
Arlen Barnes and his wife, both Winters High School graduates, earned a fall 1971 Dean's List distinction at Ranger Junior College. They are sophomores at RJC, meeting the required B or above grade average. Barnes is the son of Jim and a Winters family. Mrs. Barnes is De Jores Cody Folsom, daughter of M. B. Folsom of Wingate.
Winters city council on Monday night formally called the city election for April 1 to choose three aldermen for two year terms. Incumbents James Spill Hal Dry and Bill Robinson will run for re election. Other aldermen E E Vaughan Woodrow Watts and Mayor Wade White continue one more year. Council also approved leasing oil and gas rights at the city sewer farm to John R Cooks Co Breckenridge for five dollars per acre.
Woodrow Hoffman of the Soil Conservation Service reports 18 more farmers and ranchers signed working agreements, bringing total to 1 031 on 430 000 acres. For six months, 21 cooperators developed plans on 7 694 acres. total plans cover 367 000 acres. SCS provided 803 technical services to 348 farmers with 206 applying conservation practices. Resources inventories aided 17 governments and individuals. Only three producers on 6 240 acres certified for Great Plains funds due to money shortages.
Texas Highway Department reports 1,365,440 visitors in 1971 a 16 percent rise. Tom H. Taylor named Mr Travel heads travel promotion noting Texas as a national destination. Bureau counselors offer maps brochures and personal guidance at 11 bureaus aiding mail inquiries and film outreach.
County Judge Elliott J. Kemp proclaims February 14 18 1972 as Farm Bureau Week in Runnels County urging citizens to recognize the agricultural organization. The notice notes Farm Bureau as independent nonpartisan and composed of farming families seeking solutions to agricultural problems. Kemp signs the proclamation on February 4 1972.
Tickets for the Winters Chamber of Commerce annual Membership Banquet went on sale this week. The event is scheduled for Friday February 25 at the School Cafeteria. Tickets are available from board members or at the Chamber office. Principal speaker will be A C Cullen Akins of Texas Mud and Chemical Co Odessa.
Two Winters students earned the Distinguished Student ranking at Texas A&M University. Michael F. Kozelsky, industrial engineering, and Hershel Hudon White Jr., agricultural economics, are among the top 10 percent of undergraduates with at least a 3.25 GPA.
Wallace-Murray Corp reports 1971 sales of 217,554,424 up 6 percent from 1970. Net income rose to 6,829,761 and earnings per share to 1.76. fully diluted 1.46. Fourth quarter sales were 57,553,808 with net income 2,200,081, up 46 percent from 1970. Raach cites building products gains and an acquisition of Rittiner Industrial Enameling Inc.
North Runnels County Cancer Society members attended an American Cancer Society Crusade meeting in San Angelo this week. Plans were set for the Annual Cancer Crusade. Attendees included Mr. and Mrs. George Garrett, Mrs. Raymon Lloyd, Mrs. Sally Gray, and Mrs. Earl Roach.
County Judge Elliott J. Kemp proclaims Farm Bureau Week February 14 to 18 in Runnels County. The drive aims to surpass last year’s 127,402 member families as M. L. Dobbins of Winters leads the local bureau with Leon Frerich of Norton as membership chairman.
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