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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1969
Page
4
Schools reported a record turnout during Texas Public Schools Week opening night with 760 parents registering, 488 adults without children visiting, and 37 rooms open across the Elementary School. The note underscores strong local interest in education and student welfare.
Electronic study shows Pat Hammonds at the control console of Winters High School language lab installed to support 24 students at eight instructional levels. Four independent booths, twenty headphones, and multiple tape players accompany the system costing 6032 dollars per superintendent Carroll Tatum.
Six candidates filed for three vacancies on the Winters Independent School District board. Incumbents Dr. C. T. Rives and M. E. Mathis planned to seek re election. New filers include Mrs. Paul Michaelis Henry T Webb Andrew Englert G W Sneed with John W Norman not seeking another term. The election is set for Saturday April 5.
About 238 attend the Winters Chamber of Commerce membership banquet in the school cafeteria. Ray Alder man receives Man of the Year as Woodrow Watts becomes chamber president. Special guest State Rep Lynn Nabers honors retiring directors. James L Hays critiques trends toward small communities and strong schools as Winters showcases its future.
Corporal Harce W Gibbs USMC was wounded in action February 27 in Quang Nam Province, Vietnam. He sustained fragmentation wounds to both legs buttocks left shoulder and left forearm from a hostile device. He is hospitalized in Guam in good condition and expected to remain six to eight weeks. Gibbs enlisted March 4 1968, trained in San Diego, and arrived in Vietnam August 18.
Winters Lions Club plans a polio booster drive with the State Department of Health to vaccinate those who had the initial dose and to offer first time doses. A date near early April will be announced soon to ensure completion before school ends.
Woodrow Watts notes the Third Monday Chamber lunch will recognize local industrial firms for their contributions to the economy. The event at Huffman House will feature representatives from various concerns as guests. A new Winters greeter service is being planned, and a meeting of all chamber committee chairmen will be scheduled soon.
A comedy basketball game between Winters school faculty and Winters High School seniors is set for Thursday night March 13 at 7 in the high school gym. Proceeds go to the West Texas Rehabilitation Center in Abilene. Sponsored by the 1969 Easter Seals committee. Admission 50 cents adults 25 cents students. Concession stand by the Winters Rifle Association.
The Winters City Council has accepted the new Community Center building from the contractors. The structure is completed, but interior work remains and furniture including tables chairs is needed. A kitchen to handle large crowds is being completed by the City.
At least 800 people visited Winters schools during Public Schools Week open house on Monday evening. Carroll Tatum, superintendent, noted both the high school and elementary school were popular. The Junior High Band gave a concert in the gym before classrooms with more than 500 attendees.
The Winters City Council announced at a called meeting last Thursday that Mrs. Ellis Zane Moore will join the City Secretary’s office in City Hall. She will replace Miss Eunice Polk, who plans to retire about May 1.
Winters student David Brown was named to the dean's list for the fall semester 1968 at Sam Houston State College in Huntsville, noting strong academic achievement.
Band Boosters plan a Spring Style Show on Tuesday March 11 at 7 30 pm in the school cafeteria. Local women and girls model spring wear from The Fashion Shop and Heidenheimer's with proceeds funding Winters School Band instruments and music needs.
Winters First Baptist Church hosts Youth Week from March 9 to March 16 with 300 youths grades 7 to 12 leading services Church leaders include Robert Moore as Youth Pastor and Bill Grantz as Youth Music Director The Runnels County Youth Association Rally follows on March 15 at 7 30 pm with music testimonies and drama staged by Runnels youths.
Ray Alderman head of Alderman Cave Milling & Grain Co. in Winters was named Man of the Year for 1968 at the Winters Chamber of Commerce annual banquet. Wesley M. Hays presented the plaque and praised Alderman for his service to Winters and Region 15.
Two Winters youths, Michael L. Deike and Fred E. Minzenmayer, were named Distinguished Students at Texas A&M University. The honor recognizes academic excellence with at least a 2.25 GPA in the most recent semester.
From Kansas Mr and Mrs Jack Roe of Haysville spent the past weekend with his mother Mrs John Tharp and her parents Mr and Mrs B E O Dell.
Winters students enjoy a holiday Friday as local teachers attend the Mid-Texas Education Association convention in Brownwood March 6 and 7. Nearly 2000 teachers from District XV will gather at the Brownwood Coliseum with events including a Boy Scout color presentation and a Brownwood High School a Capella choir patriotic montage.
The Winters Lions Club sets its annual light bulb sale for March 11 with two city canvassing teams led by H. M. Nichols and Ted Meyer. Members Marshall Wortham Buford Baldwin and Gattis Neely will sell bulbs wearing organization vests to identify the volunteers. Proceeds fund club projects including glasses purchases crippled children work and Boy Scout sponsorship.
Ernest M. Cathey son of Mr and Mrs Rufus M Cathey of Wingate has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U S Air Force after graduating from Officer Training School at Lackland AFB He is a 1961 Winters High School graduate and earned a B S in civil engineering from Texas Technological College in 1967 He is assigned to Mather AFB California for navigator training.
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