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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1966
Page
6
Community brief warns that dry weather fuels grass and weed fires. Volunteers from Winters Fire Department respond to blazes. readers urged to trash disposal safely and keep matches and incinerators under control to protect property and prevent injuries. It also notes a warning poster about fake stock schemes to caution the public.
Mr and Mrs Reneal Boles of Winters announce the arrival of twin boys born July 25. Maternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs of Bryan. Paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs W Boles of Winters.
Mr and Mrs Cal Chapman spent the past week visiting in this city with their son.
Technical Sergeant Jimmie W. Vinson receives the Air Force Commendation Medal from Brigadier General William D. Dunham in Waco. Vinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Vinson of Winters, earned the award for meritorious service as a communications technician at Headquarters, Twelfth Air Force. He is a Winters High School graduate. his wife is Valerie J. Cox.
George Beard director of Winters Schools Head Start announces an open house August 2 from 8 to 9 p m in rooms 5 6 and 7 of the west wing. Forty five preschool pupils will display work and activities as the eight week federally financed program ends August 5 with a City Park picnic.
Johnny B. Smith says 195 additional reserved seats will be offered for home games. East bleachers total 990, west bleachers 445. general admission and reserved seats cost 1.25. Student general admission 50 cents. First home game Sept 16 at Blizzard Field, seating about 2700.
Winters Volunteer Fire Department and Dyess Air Force Base fire unit battled a fire at the Atlas Missile Site east of Winters after torches ignited cables. Five workers escaped from 175 feet below ground as foam aided early control before Dyess arrived.
Capt and Mrs Winford Hogan and their sons from Clyde visited the home of her parents Mr and Mrs G W Scott Jr and family.
Winters High School Blizzard football schedules two Saturday night tilts this season. The opener lands at Lake View on Sept. 10 in San Angelo, followed by a home-or-away game against Seymour High School on Oct. 8 at Stamford.
Henry H. McCreight of Winters and Texas Tech, a member of the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class, trains at Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in Quantico Virginia. He seeks a commission as second lieutenant after two six week sessions and college graduation.
H D Pierce organized a Confederate veteran roll for Runnels County beginning in 1885. Sgt Sylvester Adams, born 1834 in Umphreys County Tennessee, served in Speight's Battalion and 1st Texas Heavy Artillery at Galveston. He helped found the county, served as its first judge, was reelected, died 1889, and was memorialized with a stone monument. He left a wife, three sons and three daughters. He was a Democrat of the old school who believed in government by the people and in the justice of the Confederate cause.
Winters School Board announces the 1966 67 hire of Mrs. Alvin (Trena) Holmes as Spanish and Social Studies teacher at Winters High School. She holds a Bachelor of Science from McMurry College and is a Shallowwater native planning to move to Winters.
The Midway Citizens Radio Club will hold its July meeting at 7 30 p m Saturday July 30 in the Crews Community Center. All area Citizens Band radio operators and interested persons are invited to attend.
Jim Swofford announces Blizzard Band will begin practice on Monday August 8 at 6 30 p m in the Band Hall Arrival and a music and marching practice for the 1966 67 school year Students intending to join the band next year urged to attend the first session.
Private Delton J. Childers age 20 son of Mr and Mrs David J Childers Rt 4 Winters completed an eight week telephone switchboard operator course at the Army Southeastern Signal School Fort Gordon Georgia on July 22 He trained to operate the complex central office switch board used by the Army and learned various communications systems and manual telephone office sets.
Coleman County Electric Cooperative will hold its annual meeting July 29 at the Coleman Rodeo Grounds. Registration starts 7:00 p.m. Music by Linda Kasberg from 7:30 to 8:00 p.m. and the meeting at 8:00 p.m. includes reports and the election of three directors. Youth Tour winners Linda Kasberg and Ronnie Droll will present speeches and slides. A Baptist preacher and Pehl's Old Time Band will entertain. 4-H Horse Club runs the concession stand. Visitors welcome.
A sparse public briefing describes union-led efforts to organize oil field workers in the area. An upcoming election may decide whether workers come under union control, amid concerns about methods and impacts on displaced staff and management.
Winters Mayor W. M. Hays told the Lions Club that the city is financially sound with ongoing and completed projects. He cited two thirds of the water settling basin finished and a record water and power usage, noting per capita water use now about 350 gallons daily versus 32 gallons 25 years ago, and hospital near break-even.
Billy M. Pumphrey, a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania, toured Chuya District with Hon. R. A. Kinyonga of the Tanzanian Parliament. They visited Mwambani, Saza, and Lake Rukwa sites, observed local shops, a White Fathers mission, and noted a 2 cent tax on fish.
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