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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1970
Page
3
July garden guidance covers lawn fertilizing and watering, mulch checks, care for newly transplanted plants, pest control and disease prevention, and seasonal tasks. New All American Rose Selection winners for 1971 Aquarius Command Performance and Redglow are announced, with notes on plant quality and hardiness.
Guidance for maintaining summer annuals includes removing faded blooms to prevent seeds, thorough deep watering then allowing drying, mulch to conserve moisture and cool soil, pruning tip for petunias to regrow from the base, mildew prevention, staking tall plants, and grasshopper control beginning as they rise in Runnels County.
Invites all to a Shep Homecoming on Sunday July 5 with a basket lunch. Local notices include obituaries and hospital stays, visits by Neal Bagwell and family in Pecos, Lynda Armstrong and daughters visiting Itta Bena Mississippi, and Mrs. Pearl Whigham visiting Abi lene. The golden wedding for John and Mrs Phillips drew relatives to Cisco and Cross Plains. Guests at Lela Parrish’s included sisters from Abilene and Dalhart family, with Minter Humphrey expected from Arkansas. Ann Sunderman returned to Waco after visiting Bob Phillips and Gay Venda enrolled at TCU Fort Worth.
Signs of grasshopper threats appear along roadsides canals and ditch banks and in idle fields. Early treatment in margins reduces acreage needing later spraying. Insecticides in sprays dusts or baits work with sprays providing higher initial kills and longer residual effect. Sevin use two pounds per acre wettable powder recommended as safest option.
The Wingate Gator TOPS held its regular meeting at Humble Recreation Hall on Monday June 29. Queen of the week was Mrs. Wayne Owen. Members present included Mrs. George Cave and eight other attendees.
The final Mexican War veteran lived 81 years after the war, while the last Civil War veterans from the Union and Confederate sides reached ages 90 and 93 respectively, highlighting long post war lifespans.
Funeral services held at Shep Baptist Church for Mrs. C. C. Carpenter 75 of Shep following illness. Burial in Shep Cemetery. survivors include daughter Ruby Busher and granddaughter line. Officiants were Rev. T. L. Nipp Jr and Rev. Melvin Byrd.
The children of Mrs. E. W. Patterson express thanks to friends for cards flowers and funeral attendance. We pray for mutual help in sorrow and sign off from John Marion Walter Hollie and families.
A veteran’s pension typically isn’t reduced while in a VA hospital and when he has a wife or child. The note underscores protected status under dependency and hospitalization conditions.
Cadet Robert R. Conner son of Mr and Mrs Robert T Conner Route 1 Winters is in six week practical application ROTC leadership at the Army ROTC summer camp at Ft Sill Oklahoma from June 3 to July 14. He attends Texas Tech University Lubbock majoring in agricultural engineering and is a member of Alpha Zeta Alpha Epsilon and Scabbard and Blade.
Geyla Dominguez of Alamo Gordo New Mexico stayed with grandparents Mr and Mrs A R Spence as her parents attended a teachers conference in New Orleans Louisiana.
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