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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1959
Page
5
A seasoned angler shares practical advice on catching catfish with rod and reel and trotlines. The piece covers bait selection for yellow blue and channel catfish, depth strategies, and rig adjustments, emphasizing bottom fishing, slow retrieves, and varied bait to increase catches. It notes power dam construction boosting catfishing and urges trybelow dam waters or any local rivers and lakes in Texas.
The text discusses how to determine a child’s dominant eye and the impact of crossed dominance on learning and coordination. It notes that right handed people are usually right eyed, while cross dominance can relate to nervous issues, reading difficulties, speech problems, and sports accuracy, with warnings against forcing handedness changes. It also mentions British preferences for negotiation and democracy in Africa.
Runnels Soil Conservation District officials emphasize weed control as crucial for new grass plantings. Chairman H. Giesecke Jr. notes seedlings survive dry summers with weed competition reduced, and technician James Glenn adds first growing season care is vital. Chemical or physical methods help manage weeds while avoiding harming nearby cotton crops.
The W. W. Paschal family reunion gathered at Ballinger City Park on a Saturday and Sunday with about sixty attendees. Listed are numerous Paschal relatives from Plainview Dimmitt Fort Worth Bluff Dale Abilene San Angelo and Winters plus several others. one daughter from Fort Worth missed due to illness.
Mrs. J. B. Whitlow and Mrs. O. H. Green attended a week long School Food Service Workshop at Texas Tech in Lubbock. Three hundred sixty attendees from Texas New Mexico and Oklahoma joined sessions on nutrition sanitation meal planning and demonstrations to improve school child nutrition.
A 25 county study notes supply and demand push Texas farm land prices higher as population grows and land becomes tightly held. Fertility, water, minerals especially oil, and proximity to cities push values above productive farming returns. Urban expansion converts fields to real estate, keeping prices rising while land remains scarce.
Shirley Mariane Tubbs daughter of Mr and Mrs Homer Tubbs became the bride of Alpheus Milton Hill when they repeated marriage vows in Abilene at the home of Rev Bill Dearden Drasco Baptist Church Friday evening June 19 The groom is the son of L C Hill and Mrs Hill Attendants were Mr and Mrs Winford Hogan The bride wore a blue embroidered cotton satin dress and corsage of white flowers She is a Winters High School graduate active in FHA band student council choir Sub Deb club and circulation manager of Gale She was named to Whos Who She is employed at Winters State Bank The groom attended Winters High until his senior year and graduated from Denver City School in 1953 He was on Blizzard Football basketball track and the Cochran 4 H Club He was a Stils County Gold Star boy He attended Texas Tech and finished American Barber School Fort Worth While in barber school he worked at Temco Aircraft He is a National Guard member has served as Flight instructor at Fort Rucker Alabama and is now farming in the Drasco community
Winters High School will start construction of a brick manual training building on campus within days. The Winters Lumber Company is the contractor and the 2609 square foot facility, east of the home making cottage, should be finished by August 15. It will house classrooms, an office, and a working lab with equipment for drawing and woodworking. J P Durgan was elected to teach woodwork and mechanical drawing, holding a BS in industrial arts from Sul Ross College.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ryan returned home Monday after visiting their sons. They spent time with Harley Ryan and family in Sherman and with Herbert Ryan and sons Mike and Kim in Richardson.
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