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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1967
Page
5
Little League baseball offers boys teamwork and proper attitude benefits while giving parents insight into imperfection. It provides structured summer activity, opportunities for leadership, and requires community effort and sacrifice from volunteers. a public thanks is due to those who organize and fund the program.
The Yank ees top the Little League standings with a 12 3 mark for the summer. Mike Fowler batted .676 to pace hitters. Billy Albright totaled 28 runs. Vernon Grand went 5 0 in pitching as team captains were Jay Henderson Oscar Torres and Billy Albright.
Winters School Head Start program wraps an eight week term on Friday August 4 with an open house on Tuesday August 1. Principal George Beard notes rooms 5 6 and 7 will host and invites the public and parents to see summer results. An indoor picnic closes the program later that day. Ten paid staff plus three to six volunteers work daily while students receive dental and medical exams vaccines and minor surgeries as needed.
Winters officials report summer Head Start participation helps children gain self confidence and adapt to classroom life ahead of September entry. Some enrollees may lead their grades once in public school, while mothers attend weekly educational sessions under county supervision. Federal funds for the Winters program were pending but expected soon through Central Texas Opportunities Inc.
About 20 archers from Abilene and San Angelo are expected to join locals for a Sunday meet at the new Winters Lake range east of town. The event starts at 2 p m under Texas Field Archers Association rules with four classes A to D and both men and women competing. Jerry B Whitlow of Winters is association president and bows for both tournament and hunting uses will be allowed.
Shep Baptist Church opens a summer revival starting July 30 and ending August 6. Rev Melvin Byrd Harmony Pastor preaches with Luther Black from Abilene leading the singing. Evening services begin at 8 p m with prayer at 7 45 m and a 8 45 m final service led by Rev Ted Bigham Pastor.
Winters High School coaches L G Wilson Bill Grissom and Bud Busher will attend the Texas High School Coaches School in San Antonio from July 30 to August 4. Jerry Neely recently joined the staff will miss this coaching school. Noted instructors include John McKay of Southern California and Doug Dickey of Tennessee. The program covers football basketball track baseball and training with an All-Star North versus South basketball game and an All-Star football game slated for next Thursday. Officials expect a new attendance record surpassing 4677 from Houston last year.
Jimmie Leeroy Hoppe of Winters joined 58 other graduates at Our Lady of the Lake College San Antonio for summer graduation exercises. The Doctor John L. McMahon presided as the president presented Master of Education degrees in the Third Auditorium at the close of the first summer session.
Jerry L Davis, son of Mrs. S E Davis of Ballinger, has been promoted to Staff Sergeant E6. The promotion was announced by his wife Carolyn Green Davis, who with their son Jerry Lynn is living in Winters while he serves in Vietnam. He is stationed at An Khe with the 545th MP Company, First Air Cavalry Division.
About 80 signed up for the summer program for underprivileged children at Winters Pool. Wayne Roberts supervises the Municipal pool with Bo Killing overseeing pool facilities. The project is run under program provisions. a supervisor will receive $300 per month with helpers paid $1.40 per hour and Bill Baldwin and Mike Hays as unpaid instructors.
Winters Blizzard football kicks off the 1967 season with a home pre conference game against Lake View on Saturday Sept 9 at Blizzard Field. The schedule includes ten games with only four at home and a Oct 7 game at Stamford against Seymour. Reserved seats rise to 1.50 while general admission stays 1.25 with 0.50 for students.
Andrew M. Connally of Houston will be the speaker for a Bible sermon series at the Winters Church of Christ 500 North Main Street starting Monday July 31. Evening services at 7 30 and morning services at 7. Connally spent years in Africa helping build Chinala Mission and a hospital before moving to Houston to work with the Southwest Church of Christ. Glenn Gray, Winters minister, invites the public to attend.
Mrs. Dale Thompson of Maverick Community traveled to her birth country Germany in May with her husband and five children. She toured Hessen, Braunfels, Garmisch Partenkirchen, Austria, Innsbruck, and Munich, noting green landscapes, rain, rivers, castles, and a remarkable Neuschwanstein kitchen before returning to Texas.
The Winters All-Stars beat Ralls 15-4 in Seymour to advance to the Section 1 Finals of the Southern Senior League. Sam Scott pitched the complete game and homered with the bases loaded. Winters faces the Munday Carson County winner Friday for the championship, with potential games to Pecos or Waco next week.
The Rev. Sidney Roberts will speak at a fifth Sunday service at First Methodist Church in Winters on Sunday July 30. Seven county churches Ballinger Norton Bethel Wingate Crews Talpa Winters join for a 6:30 p m youth meeting and 7:30 p m worship, uniting county Methodists in a single event.
The Winters Senior Little League All-Star team defeated Ballinger in a district game at Wingate to win a trip to Seymour for further contests. Pitcher Jerry Powers earned the win in five innings. Pat Pritchard and Lynn Billups accompanied the squad, sponsored by Winters merchants to cover Seymour travel costs.
Two Winters women Mrs Eva Kelly and Mrs M L Dobbins were among about 200 Central Texas Conference members attending the Woman's Society of Christian Service school of Christian Mission on the Southwestern University campus in Georgetown. Dean Winslow Dahnke led the event with the theme Christian Unity. Sessions covered Ecumenicity Man and Community Christ and the Faiths of Men and Japan under President Mrs R W Bickham of Fort Worth and other leaders.
W. C. Dunn of Wingate is recovering from wounds received June 29 in Vietnam while serving with the 101st Airborne Division. He was dismissed from the hospital July 17 but had not yet returned to active duty as of the last report. He is stationed at Duc Pho.
The account describes a visitor who toured towers with public access, rode trains to Bremen and Oldenburg for seaside escapades, noted cold North Sea waters, observed ship channel work, and enjoyed forest walks and a mountain-top view during a lively string of excursions with detailed sensory impressions.
The Crews school and community reunion is announced for Sunday August 13 at the school gymnasium. Attendees should bring a basket lunch while bread ice drinks cups plates and glasses will be provided. Everyone is invited to attend.
Winters Country Club resumes family night on Thursday August 3 after weeks of Wednesday meetings due to Little League conflicts. The change brings back the original Thursday schedule for community families.
Mrs B J Joyce a home making teacher at Winters High School was one of more than a hundred women enrolled in a workshop on the Bishop Method of Clothing Construction at Texas Woman's University July 24 28 TWU coordinators were two faculty members Dr Bethel Caster and Mrs Veneta Young.
Lt. James Ross Bell Jr. is stationed at Hill Home. The note confirms his Air Force assignment with limited readable details.
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