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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1964
Page
5
Only eleven days remain to pay poll taxes with January 31 as final deadline and offices closed on weekends. Deputies report low receipts while elections at precinct and city to national levels approach. Quail season ends and deer hunting stories from Balke and Newcomb bring local color to Winters.
Winters Volunteer Fire Department elected Neal Chambliss as president and Carson C. Easterly as vice president. J. C. Jarrell and Marvin Bedford were reappointed in secretary treasurer and fire chief roles, with numerous officers renewed or named including Captain and Assistant Captain positions and church sponsor selections. The pension board members were named as Calvin Holloway A B Spill and James Spill.
Mr and Mrs Carl Turk and Shirley visited their daughter Martha in Hobbs New Mexico over the weekend.
Hugo Vogelsang of the Valley Creek Water Control and Improvement District turns the first shovel as construction starts on the valley creek flood control project. The initial dam is on W. L. Murphy’s ranch four and a half miles north of shop with O B Baker of Burnet to build the first of two retarding structures among twenty planned in the valley.
Donald Earl Roach son of Mr and Mrs Earl Roach of Winters is among 104 University of Texas College of Engineering seniors slated for bachelor degrees January 25 at semester end. No public exercises will be held. Roach earns a bachelor of science in aerospace engineering.
Two Winters High School bandsmen earned spots in the 110 piece All Region Band Saturday in Abilene. Robbie Sue Gans a freshman contrabass clarinet player and Judy Smith a junior baritone saxophonist represented Winters and the Blizzard Band among more than 400 musicians from 55 Region 2 schools.
The Winters School census trustee continues enumeration through January. Superintendent James Nevins urges parents of children who turn six by Sept 1 1964 to sign and return census blanks. Help is available by calling the school offices at PL4-1353 or PL4-3711.
John Richardson, District 22 commander, spoke on the 1964 membership drive and Community Service program at the Winters VFW post Monday night. The local VFW and Auxiliary will aid the March of Dimes drive now in progress. Attendees included J. L. Morrow Rev. Edgar Graham E. F. Miller Jr. M. L. Guy James Crockett W. L. Collins Max Lewis Ted Meyer C. H. Harrell and W. D. Hicks from the San Angelo VFW post.
Mr and Mrs R R Merrill of Big Spring former Winters residents returned Friday to settle back in Winters.
F R Anderson chairman for Winters MOD drive. Jay Garrett Ballinger county chairman. No quota set. 1962 county total 6558 dollars. Funds support birth defects arthritis and polio efforts. Half the money stays in the county.
Les Wheeler, head football coach at Abilene Christian College, will be the guest speaker at the Blizzard Football banquet Saturday January 18. The event in the school cafeteria begins at 7 p m. The banquet is organized by Blizzard cheerleaders and the Winters Boosters Club. Wheeler led ACC to an 8 1 season and earned Southwest Region Coach of the Year honors. He played at Robstown High School and ACC and was a Little All American tackle in college.
Mrs Nancy Nelson returned to her Phoenix Arizona home Sunday after spending two weeks with her parents Mr and Mrs Nolan Cave in their home.
Winters High School teams opened District 6-AA with decisive wins over Bal linger 59-47 boys and 49-42 girls. Nicki Eoff led the Winters girls with 25 points while Scotty Belew had 20 for the Winters boys. Ballinger won the B contest 51-42. Next games: boys vs Stamford and girls vs Lakeview at home tonight.
The FTA district convention will be at Winters High School on January 25. About 200 delegates from 16 schools are expected. Ronald Kraatz of Winters HS is district president and Barbara Baldwin is corresponding secretary. Mrs Kruse and Mrs Kelly serve as district advisors.
Classes at Winters High School announced their favorites in last week’s elections. Senior girl Judy Kettler and senior boy William Green were chosen, with junior Ann Bean and Larry Awalt, sophomore Kay Green and Bill Cathey, and freshman Phyllis Awalt and Mike Magee selected as class favorites.
Everett Phillips, formerly of Denver City, becomes parts department staff at Waddell Chevrolet Co. Lewis Blackmon shifts from parts to service. Phillips is married with one child and the family has moved to Winters to reside there.
Airman Walter K. Kraatz son of Mr and Mrs Walter A Kraatz Route 1 Winters is reassigned to Keesler AFB Miss for technical training as a radio and radar maintenance specialist He enlisted recently completed basic training and is a Winters High School graduate class of 1960 who attended Indiana Technical College at Fort Wayne
County Farm Bureau leaders plan nationwide issue discussions at a Jan 23 meeting in Dallas. Dr. Kenneth Hood of Chicago will be the main speaker, with Ben Frerich and others from Runnels County attending along with area officers.
The Winters Manufacturing Co. becomes Pan-American Industries Inc forming a new consolidated company with Pan-American Sales Thermoil Lubricants Corp. and Funderburg Investments. The firm will manufacture and distribute evaporative air conditioners metal shelving desks lockers cabinets and other metal items from a payroll near 30000 monthly with plans to expand production and facilities.
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