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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1959
Page
6
Winters superintendent Jim Nevins invites all patrons to tour classrooms and dine in the cafeteria during Public Schools Week March 26. He notes visits any day are welcome and calls for education that builds fundamentals, advanced studies, citizenship, self direction, and community cooperation for all students.
With the filing deadline about a week away, only O. B. Raper has filed for re election to Winters City Council. Mayor May Poe will not seek re election and no candidate has filed for mayor as of Thursday noon. terms of two councilmen and the mayor end this year. The filing deadline is midnight March 7, with the election set for April 7.
Winters voters approve a bid call for a $175000 engine and generator to expand the city light and power plant. The plan includes up to $175000 financed by time warrants at up to five percent, with bids due March 20 and completion by December 15, 1979. An addition of about 18 feet to the North end is expected, costing around $5000, to be built on the current South Main Street plant.
At a Ballinger meeting February 19, Runnels County Farm Bureau directors and members heard several area counties favor Ballinger as the site for a cotton classing office. Miss Patti McDaniel served as secretary.
Fausto Salvoni a noted European evangelist on a US tour speaks at 7 30 p.m. Friday February 27 at the Church of Christ Winters. He discusses my conversion and present work in Italy and headlines a schedule visiting over 30 Texas California and Midwest cities.
Winters Independent School system hosts an annual appreciation banquet Friday evening March 6 in the school cafeteria. Dr. Jon Upshaw speaks. Rev. Henry Flathman gives the invocation. M. D. Johnston greets. James Jones presides, with James B. Nevins presenting service pins.
The Winters Chamber of Commerce names M. D. Johnston as president and Dr. John E. Griffin as vice president with T. L. Hatler as treasurer. Outgoing president is J. W. Bahlman, replaced by C. P. Alfrey as vice president and Bill Craven as treasurer.
Mrs. Oran Mathis and Mrs. T. A. Meadows have returned home from a visit with their sister Mrs. Ed Stokely in Westmoreland California. They traveled with Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Curtis, Jimmy and Gayle of Centralia Washington, who had been visiting here with her parents Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Meadows.
Winters Texas mayor proclaims Public Schools Week from March 26 1959 urging patrons to visit local schools during the observance. The Winters Independent Schools outline visiting hours for primary and elementary grades and invite attendance at high school events, with meals in the cafeteria.
M L Dobbins of Drasco in North Runnels County chosen as Outstanding Conservation Farmer for 1958 by Run nels Soil Conservation District chair H Gie secke Jr. His three farms total 563 acres. 65 percent of the planned conservation program is completed.
Winters High hosts La Fiesta amateur talent show in the auditorium on Thursday March 12. Sponsored by the Quill and Scroll Honor Society. Proceeds beyond prize money support a scholarship fund for high school journalists. Prizes awarded in high school and elementary groups. Entry contact Karen Parrish or Ernestine Scott.
Friends of Girl Scouting greet buyers as Girl Scouts of Winters Area continue selling cookies this week. Mrs Wes Hays cookie chairman says the community’s support, with many boxes purchased, helps fund the girls’ activities and earnings from the sale go to the troop.
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