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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1968
Page
5
A Town column warns Winters residents about lawn mower dangers during peak mowing season and a city clean up. It cites national injury statistics from a General Telephone Company article and offers safety tips such as reading the manual inspecting parts and fueling before operation.
Parents of children enrolled in the summer Head Start program at Winters School will be invited to attend special classes held each Tuesday. Principal George Beard and Runnels County Home Demonstration Agent Mrs. Juanita O Connor will oversee sessions focusing on food nutrition clothing and basic budgeting with help from school staff and Mrs Hambright. The first class runs 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. and includes discussion and practical guidance.
Winters chamber sponsors a two week East-West Clean-Up drive with judges from out of town to determine the cleanest side of town. The contest ends June 30 with a plaque awarded and a watermelon feed planned. Citizens and officials coordinate city pickup efforts as Governor Connally may attend.
Winters School Board fills vacancies by naming Charles Chili Black and Tom Konczak as new assistants. Black, a Texas Tech alum and former Red Raider lineman, will coach line and teach physical education and social studies. Konczak, Clyde and Tarleton State graduate, will coach junior high and teach science and physical education.
The Rev. Inez Aleman, former pastor of a mission at Big Wells for three years, began duties as pastor of Immanuel Baptist Mission of the First Baptist Church in Winters on June 2. He graduated from the Mexican Baptist Bible Institute in San Antonio in May and previously studied at Primera Iglesia Bautista in Lubbock. Born November 27 1937 in Beeville, he moved to Ma this at age nine and is married to Eva Garcia with a son, Robert, 13. The family resides at 505 N Main.
Band director Jim Swofford resigns after three years with the Blizzard Band at Winters High School. He will move to Floydada schools to serve as band director, pending board review of applicants and district officials.
Norton residents will choose a path for the district after a Saturday fire left the 41 year old school building damaged. A community meeting set for 8 30 p m Monday June 17 in the gym will decide whether to rebuild the high school or the grade school, consolidate with a neighboring district, or contract with others.
A summer recreation swim program for 6 to 12-year-olds approved by the Office of Economic Opportunity will be directed by Jerry Neely in Winters. Eligible children may report for supervision and registration as announced by officials.
Kevin 9 Barry 13 and Riley 12 Marks spent a week this summer repairing a West Parsonage roof damaged by the March 10 hailstorm. They lifted and reattached a roof top air conditioner while nailing about 21 squares of asphalt shingles. Their father praised their professional workmanship.
Former District Judge O L Parish will speak at the Mazeland Wilmeth marker dedication at Wilmeth Baptist Church Sunday at 2 p m as part of the community homecoming. The event honors early settlers and includes a basket lunch after a 10 a m Sunday School.
The Rev. Glenn C. Bowman, formerly at St. Paul Methodist Church in Fort Worth, is named pastor of First Methodist Church of Winters succeeding Rev. Edward T. Orwell. Bowman arrives with his wife. Otwell moves to First Methodist in Cleburne. Bowman’s background includes Daniel Baker College and Perkins School of Theology, with leadership roles in the Central Texas Conference.
Harvest of the 1968 wheat crop in Winters is near peak with hot weather drying grain and combines making rapid progress. Some shipments will arrive for weeks as yields vary and quality lags expectations though No 1 ordinary protein supports strong grade. A grain train derailment north of Winters disrupted the Abilene Southern line with about 20 cars involved. damage extent unclear.
Robert Moore of Winters, son of Mr and Mrs Ellis Zane Moore, was among about 750 Texas high school boys registering for the 28th annual American Legion Boys State at the University of Texas Austin. Moore, sponsored by his local Legion Post, will be a senior next year. Boys State assigns citizens to Longhorn or Pioneer parties and includes precinct, county and state conventions and a gubernatorial day at the Capitol. The program aims to show government works by hands on learning.
The Annual Winters City Golf Tournament begins Saturday June 15 with 18 hole qualifying scores due by Friday June 14. Open to club members and non members, entrants pay 5 dollars and may play four rounds for a trophy in each flight. The Ladies Tournament starts the same day with 9 hole rounds and a 3 dollar entry fee, four flights hoped.
Mr. and Mrs. Huckaby and Tamara returned Sunday to Sherman after visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Allen and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Huckaby of Stanton. Selinda Allen accompanied them home for a few days visit.
Six Winters people, five delegates from Runnels County, attend the State Democratic Convention in Dallas this week. Among attendees are Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Bahlman, Mr. and Mrs. Rankin Pace, and Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Hays.
In Sanders home Mr and Mrs Howard Jones and daughter Barbara of Deming New Mexico visited Thursday along with Mrs Velma Jones and Mrs W A Frymire of Tuscola in the home of Mrs J S Sanders.
Governor John Connally will take part in a Forts Trail Tour from June 27 to 29 with Winters listed as a point of interest on the Texas Forts Travel Trail. The governor and tour group are expected to arrive the morning of June 28, with Albany’s Fort Griffin Fandangle Association coordinating dedication plans alongside the Forts Trail event.
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