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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1973
Page
5
Spring has arrived with late Easter and lingering cold, while residents enjoy outdoor prep and sports. The piece warns against grass fires, urging wind checks, water at hand, and avoidance of trash piles to prevent property loss and safety risks.
Mrs. C. C. Tippett, visiting with her husband, called on her brother and family Mr. and Mrs. Owen Casey and her sister Mrs. Robert Kincaid in Novice on Sunday.
During the 62nd Legislature in 1971 72 Texas used computers to track more than 3000 House bills and reduce journal work by half. House Journal Clerk Jeanette Burk and House Administration Chair Joe Allen say the system speeds up status tracking and provides up to date information on legislation.
Winters City Council approved hiring Kirke McKenzie to manage the Winters Municipal Swimming Pool next summer. The vote took place Monday night and sets a new manager for the facility.
Winters officials announced a state grant of up to 34500 for expanding the city airport. The funds require matching by the city, potentially in kind through land and improvements, with more state funds released after drainage work begins. The plan adds 3200 foot runway, 60 foot width, moves hangar, builds a new highway entrance, and widens the airport to about 57 acres.
Five candidates filed for two city council seats in the April 7 election in Winters. Monroe Dodd, a 28 year city employee retiree, joins Woodrow Watts, Salvador Esquivel, Lloyd Gilbert, and Mrs. W. H. Lockhart in the race. Homer Hodge runs for mayor to replace Wade White. Watts term ends in April and E. E. Vaughan declined reelection. Filing deadline was March 6.
Winters boys will exhibit steers swine and lambs at the San Angelo Fat Stock Show this week. This is the last stock show of the season for local youth exhibitors. Charlie Alderman enters a Charolais cross steer. Clark Bros. Billy Hord King Bros. and James Blackwell show multiple barrows. Bryan Bros. Randall Kurtz Ricky De La Cruz Benjie Allredge and Bill Kathy Bredemeyer bring lambs as the lamb show runs Thursday and Friday respectively.
Brady High School captured the Blizzard Relays title scoring 109 points to outpace Hamlin 101 and set three meet records and two ties. Hamlin led in the 440 relay 43.5 and Mile relay 3 31.7, while San Saba’s Jimmy Walker set a 12 1 pole vault record. Stan McBroom tied the 330 intermediate hurdles mark at 41.5 as Johnny Jones tied the 100 yard dash meet record in prelims.
Randy Stevens of Winters and McMurry College will present an organ recital Sunday March 11 at 3 30 p m in the Episcopal Church of the Heavenly Rest Abilene. He studies under Francis Hinkel and serves as organist at First United Methodist Church.
The Band Boosters will plan the annual style show at a meeting next Tuesday March 13 at 7 30 p m in City Hall.
The Winters High School Blizzard Band captured first place in the parade concert and sight reading events and took second in the show band category for Class AA at Brady Heart of Texas Band Festival. About 50 parents and boosters attended each event as students presented a diverse repertoire including marches patriotic and church numbers with a Voodoo show that earned a standing ovation. Clifton High School Band won the show band event. Blizzard Band now rehearses for upcoming Interscholastic League contests.
In the second week of Little League basketball the Lakers lead the boys division while the Blue Jays and Nighthawks tie in the girls. Eva Gonzales tops girls scoring with 43 points. Jeff Russell leads boys with 34. Blue Jays beat Sparrows. Knicks and Lakers win. Bullets, 76ers win. Nighthawks topple Robins in Saturday games.
Rick Lynch, Winters High School history teacher and eighth grade basketball coach, named January Teacher of the Month by the Eula Mae Kruse Chapter FTA. Thirty three Winters High girls enter the Miss Winters 1973 pageant on March 10 with tickets at Smith Drug and Western Auto.
Wresting action arrives in Winters at the Community Center sponsored by the Ladies Auxiliary of the Winters Volunteer Fire Department. Main event Hank James faces The Lawman, with The Beast and The Lobo meeting Nick and Jerry Kozak in a tag match. Mike Quarry battles Bobby Lane. tickets available at Western Auto Store.
The United Methodist Women held World Day of Prayer at 2:30 p m on Friday March 2 with 168 countries in observance. Mrs Roy Crawford led the program themed Alert in Our Time by New Zealand women. Rev Bob Sanders opened the meeting and several women participated. The offering supports the Intercontinental Mission fund of Church Women United.
Two lambs exhibited by Winters boys earned places in the lamb judging at the Houston stock show last week. Mark Bryan's lamb took 16th in the Finewool division and Bill Bredemeyer's Suffolk lamb was 29th in the medium wool division.
Ninety community girls entered the Runnels County 4-H Food Show held March 5 with winners in age groups from 11 to senior girls. Jean O Rear and Jill Walker will represent the county at the District 4-H Food Show in San Saba March 17. Awards include Carla Dean Dawn Austin Kellie Busher Leslie Dunlap Rhonda Carter Belinda Hill Susan Bentley Rebecca Plumley Yoando Rubio Melinda Hill Teresa Dean Vickie O Dell Sue Walker across fruits vegetables mains breads desserts and beverage snacks.
The Larry Awalt Hospital Fund total has reached 833.21 to aid expenses for Larry Awalt. He died last Saturday in a Veterans Hospital in California. Funeral services were held in Winters Tuesday.
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