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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1961
Page
9
Local organizers fixed a scheduling mix up causing three parades to run during the week instead of two. Grant, head of the Up Association, says the rodeo floats will now parade Thursday starting at 5 PM with cash prizes of 75, 25, and 10 dollars for top places. Clubs are urged to craft appropriate floats for both days to attract spectators and local sponsors.
About 143 boys ages 8 through 12 participate in Winters and Wingate Little League baseball. Minor League games at 5:30 pm, Major League at 7:30, on Mondays Tuesdays Thursdays and Fridays at the Little League field east of town. Season opens weeks ago with ten games left. all-star game to be played in Abilene after season ends. Dedication of the field held June 15 with field named and community support acknowledged. Managers named for Wingate and Winters teams. field deeded by George Briley and built in 1960 with lights donated by the Winters Chamber of Commerce.
Pat M Vaughan aviation electronics mate airman USN son of Mr and Mrs E E Vaughan of 564 E Truitt completed a seven week southern Pacific cruise aboard the Seventh Fleet heavy cruiser USS Saint Paul returning to Yokosuka Japan May 22 The voyage included Neptune crossing rites for 550 sailors and visits to Okinawa Taiwan Hong Kong British North Borneo Malaya and the Philippines.
Members of the Round-Up Association urged to go to the rodeo grounds Thursday night June 15 to help prepare corrals and chutes for next week's rodeo event.
Winters Troop 49 sends eight Scouts to Chisholm Trail Council Camp Tonkawa at Abilene State Park for a week from June 18 to 25. Leaders Jimmie Randolph and Jim Burnett supervise. The program includes merit badges rifle practice archery swimming life saving crafts and a Thursday family night with Order of the Arrow ceremonies.
Mrs. Lora Coupland, Mrs. Neal Scott and their sons of San Angelo returned home Monday from California where they visited relatives. Mrs. Coupland had been in California for five weeks.
Ralph Lloyd announces a Tuesday morning barnstorming tour to publicize the 15th Annual Winters Rodeo set for June 22 23 and 24. The group will visit Tuscola Lawn Novice Coleman Talpa Ballinger Bronte and meet at Main Drug at 8 30. Round-Up Association members are asked to help prepare the rodeo corrals on Thursday June 15.
The 15th annual Winters Rodeo runs Thursday through Saturday June 22–24 with a Thursday parade starting the events. Floyd Grant chairs the parade and cash prizes are offered for parade entries. Calf scramble for boys, roving rodeo clowns, and a Callahan County Sheriff's Posse arena appearance anchor nightly entertainment.
Winters High School head coach L G Wilson announced the summer football camp for the 1961 Blizzard team will start August 14. The two week program will organize the squad and condition players. campers will train at the football field and eat meals in the cafeteria under the coaching staff supervision.
Jeannie Woffenden, daughter of Mr and Mrs George Woffenden, received cuts and bruises in a one car accident about four miles west of Winters on a country road Monday night. She was treated and released at Winters Municipal Hospital. Miss Woffenden was a passenger in a car driven by Leroy Kraatz, son of Mr and Mrs John Kraatz. An investigating officer said the car missed a curve and overturned once.
Pat Collie of San Angelo formerly lived in Winters spent Saturday night visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Roger Robinson, highlighting local ties and social hospitality in the community.
A retrospective on rodeos tracing their rise from local cattle gatherings at Pecos Texas to organized public events. The piece notes terms like Cowboy Tournaments and Frontier Days, the 1916 shift to rodeo naming, and the first paid crowd at Prescott Arizona followed by the 1917 indoor rodeo in Fort Worth stockyards.
Ten years after a strange incident the Square Gard alien lineage evolves into the International Rodeo Association with headquarters in Pendleton Oregon. The IRA lists five major events at rodeos saddle bronc riding bull riding bronc busting steer wrestling and calf roping with horse and cattle events judged by points and roping events by time. Titles depend on prize money won.
Winters boys will leave this weekend for Camp Hoblitzelle the Salvation Army camp at Midlothian for a week. Sponsored by the Winters Service Unit, the camp offers free admission for boys aged 8 to 14 with cabins, a swimming pool, and various recreation supervised by counselors. They will be in camp from Sunday noon June 18 through Sunday June 25.
Shetland ponies from John Norman's Lazy N Stables earned multiple placings at Haskell and Abilene. Lazy N Lady Oracle was reserve champion mare in Shetland at Haskell. Norman won the harness class at Abilene with Lazy N Golden Dude and earned second with Lazy N Copper Captain and Lazy N Lady Oracle in other classes. Forest Creek mares foaled 1966 or earlier claimed first place.
Local sources indicate most small grain is stored in barns with only a few late fields left. Wheat yields in the Winters region have exceeded early estimates, while barley and oats are reported in limited supply.
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