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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1962
Page
6
Officials discuss test results and safer driving practices amid calls for protecting individual rights. The discourse weighs drastic action versus upholding freedoms while urging carefully balanced protections and continued vigilance.
Full schedule outlines clowns riders and acts led by Mark Griffis and Willie Windsor for the Winters rodeo. Deadline for entry is noon June 21 with fees due before performances. Competitive events include bareback bronc, calf roping, steer wrestling, teaming, bull riding, and girls cloverleaf race with prize trophies.
F A Grant parade chairman says the 16th annual Winters Rodeo will feature two downtown parades on June 21 22 and 23 at 4 p m The event offers 75 50 and 25 cash prizes for floats entered in both parades with winners announced Saturday afternoon Three visiting riding clubs will receive trophies for the first parade prize details and entry information are available from Grant
Ten young people of the Winters Area will confirm their faith in the Triune God in Confirmation rites during the morning worship next Sunday at St. John's Lutheran Church. Confirmands include Weldon Byers, Michael Deike, Margie Ann Bitba, Kenneth Tischier, and others.
James C. Kruse returned to the States aboard the Rose from Heilbronn Germany where he served 12 years in the United States Army 48th Finance Disbursing section. He was greeted in New York Harbor by his uncle H E Barker and later joined by his wife and child in Winters. He advanced from private to Specialist 5 and earned a good conduct badge before discharge at Fort Hamilton New York and plans to attend college this fall.
Sixty six Winters High students enroll in a driver training course to begin at 8 30 a m. Principal and Coach L W Wilson will teach the program offering 30 hours of classroom instruction and six hours of driving. A written permit test will qualify students for a regular driver's license using a school car.
Tom Holland, minister, leads the Winters Church of Christ radio program airing daily 8:30 to 9:30 am and Sundays. Leo Johnson, Humble Oil supervisor, serves as announcer while Bill Wilson engineers. The non profit station broadcasts on 880 kc under FCC rules, using West Texas Utilities and Winters Municipal Light transmission lines.
West Texas Utilities President Cal Young told Winters City Council his company will accept the revised 25 year franchise offer. The deal allows City poles use with rental, emergency power tie ins, and no transferable clause. City to pay for any new connections. remodeling and line upgrades follow formal acceptance.
The Winters Sportsman Club plans a new rifle and trap range on the west side of Winters City Lake. When finished, the facility will replace existing lake facilities and fund other lake improvements.
Winters city council on Tuesday night rejected Southwestern States Telephone Co. requests for higher local rates. Mayor and councilmen Ralph Lloyd John Brown W M Hays J W Rahiman and R C Thomas noted citizen opposition and upheld residents welfare against a proposed 37.5 percent rise in various business and residence rates for local service. The requested increases would affect all local lines while toll rates would remain unchanged. the last hike was July 16 1956.
Carload shipments from Winters of the 1962 wheat crop approach the century mark as harvest nears finish. About 90 carloads had reached local buyers and elevators by Wednesday morning amid heavy Tuesday receipts due to hot weather. Quality is good and observers expect most fields cleared within a week. Barley and oats show surprising yields despite earlier adverse weather, though overall production remains modest.
Johnny Pope son of Mr and Mrs Royce Pope of Winters earned a degree from the College of Pharmacy at the University of Texas in Austin commencement exercises. He served as treasurer of the senior class and graduated with honors. Pope was named a Pharmacy Fellow and elected to Rho Chi for scholastic achievement and was a Kappa Psi member. He delivered the invocation at the exercises.
The Equalization Board is scheduled to convene on June 12 to review assessments. Officials will consider property valuations and related appeals, with sessions open to the public at the county building.
Billy Simpson and Herman A Baker Sr won runoffs for Constable and Justice of the Peace in Saturdays Democratic second primary. Simpson defeated Aaron J Wells 287 to 257 with a May 5 first primary tally of 293 for Simpson and 186 for Wells. Baker beat J Henderson 298 to 251, after Baker had 290 to Henderson 206 in the May 5 first primary. Voters also backed John Connally for Governor by 100 ballots in Runnels County with 937 to Don Yarboroughs 837 in the state runoff, and backed Preston Smith for Lieutenant Governor and Waggoner Carr for Attorney General in heavy margins.
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