Valley Creek Water Control District progress reported
H Giesecke Jr of the Runnels Soil Conservation District said the Valley Creek watershed steering committee is making good progress toward creating a Water Control District. The plan calls for 20 flood structures and 5 miles of diversions at an estimated cost of 1.3 million dollars with a two cent tax plan for funding.
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Valley Creek
H. Giesecke Jr
Runnels
Grindstaff
Ballinger
Runnels County
Henry Rampy
Rampy
Bill Harman
Winters
Frank Antiley
Wingate
Duncan Hensley
Milton Jackson
Vester Parrish
Hugo Vogelsang
Pete Franks
Buell Moore
Blackwell
C. B. Robertson
Star
Lem Ray
Abilene
J. H. Christian, Jr
Clyde Sears
Giesecke
Taylor
Nolan
State Soil Conservation Board
Upper Clear Fork
Middle Clear Fork
Commissioners Courts
Runnels Nolan
Taylor Counties
Winters ISD Extends Contracts for Band Director and Coaches
The Winters Independent School District board extended contracts for band director Robert Gans and four coaches including head coach W T Stapler and assistants Jerry English Ed Cheek and Don Edwards. Also renewed Miss Freddie Garner's contract as girls coach and physical education teacher.
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Winters Independent Schools
Robert Gans
W. T. Stapler
Jerry English
Ed Cheek
Don Edwards
Freddie Gardner
Ladies Aid monthly meeting held at St John's Lutheran Church
St John's Lutheran Ladies Aid met Thursday March 5 at 2 00 p m in the church basement with Mrs Walter Gerhart presiding. Program chair Mrs Ellis Ueckert led the devotional and others participated in Bible study and singing. Forty two members attended and the meeting closed with the Lord's Prayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies.Aid
St. John’s Lutheran Church
Walter Gerhart
Ellis Ueckert
Raymond Ueckert
Walter Kraatz
E. E. Thormeyer
Mesdames R. C. Kurtz,Jr
Ted Hantsche
Charles Adams
Mesdames
Charlie Adams
E. R. Wessels
L. Ernst
Jake Presley
Fritz Pruser
Altar Guild
Robert Gerhart
H. L. Frick
Hans Gottschalk
Tenna Goetz
Daughter of Former Resident Buried In Midland Monday
Elizabeth Glascock ten year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Ted Glascock of Midland former Winters resident and granddaughter of A T Jobe of Winters was buried at Fairview cemetery Midland after funeral services at Calvary Baptist Church Midland She died March 7 following severe burns from a gas heater February 11 Born September 25 1948 in Odessa she belonged to Calvary Baptist Church Survivors include parents four sisters a brother and two grandfathers Attendees from Winters included multiple Jobe relatives.
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Elizabeth Glascock
Ted Glascock
Midland
Winters
A. T. Jobe
Calvary Baptist Church
Travis LaDuke
Fairview
Elizabeth
Providence Memorial Hospital
el Paso
Odessa
Betty
Phylis
Sondra
Jeanie
Fred Thomas
George Glascock
Ballinger
Alvis Jobe
Mrce
B. C. Jobe
Jaanita Taft
E. C. Fenske
W. C. Jobe
Area Little League forms six teams for summer season
May 4 marks the start and the week of July 4 ends the schedule for a Winters Lawn and Wingate league. Six teams will play 18 games each with players ages 8 to 12 eligible to join. Sponsors and trainers to be announced. Insurance covers all team members on out of town trips per Little League Baseball, Inc. rules.
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Lawn
Wingate
Hatter
Little League Baseball, Inc
Hatler
Winters Garden Club Bake Sale Supports School Campus Projects
The Winters Garden Club will hold a bake sale featuring cakes and pies on Saturday March 14 at 9 30 a m at the Pigely Wiggly store. Proceeds fund landscaping at the Band Hall and Homemaking Cottage on the Winters school campus.
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Winters Garden Club
Pigely Wiggly
Winters School
Bereavement Notice for Mrs Eoff and Family
Our heartfelt thanks and appreciation extend to friends in Winters and other cities for their support in the loss of our husband and father. Mrs W A Eoff and children acknowledge their sad bereavement. Every man plays the fool once in his life, but to marry is to play the fool all one's life.
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W. A. Eoff
Weights and Measures Week Emphasized in Texas
The Texas Department of Agriculture marks the week of March 1 to March 7 as Weights and Measures Week. The observance highlights the public service of regulating weighing and measuring devices from pharmacy scales to large commercial scales at weighing stations to ensure fair transactions.
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Texas
Texas Department of Agriculture
Division of Weights and Measures
March Boosts Texas Egg Production and Farming Zoning Trends
Texas egg production rises with March marketed as egg month. Higher broiler output in 1958 and 114.3 million Texas broilers highlight a growing poultry industry. The piece also surveys agricultural zoning, its aims to protect farmland, and state enabling acts for county zoning powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Smiley-Nixon-Gonzales
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
California
Agricultural Information Bulletin No
U. S. Government Printing Office
Washington
D. C
Burleson Leaves for Laughlin AFB on Leave Visit
David Burleson departed Tuesday for Laughlin Air Force Base after a leave at home with his parents Mr and Mrs W H Burleson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David Burleson
Laughlin Afb
W. H. Burleson
Netting samples show lake fish shifts across Texas waters
Biologists report 1958 resurvey results from Oak Creek Reservoir San Angelo Reservoir and Lake Nosworthy. Bluegill sunfish dominate Oak Creek rising from 20.89 to 66.04 percent. San Angelo shows more rough fish and fewer game fish with white crappie shrinking in size while white bass rises. Lake Nosworthy remains largely unchanged with gizzard shad and river carpsuckers increasing slightly. Channel cats edge up and white bass and crappie decline elsewhere.
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Inland Fisheries
Texas Game and Fish Commission
Oak Creek
San Angelo
Lake Nosworthy
Funeral services held for Elizabeth Glascock
Mrs Raymond Hamilton attended the funeral of Elizabeth Glascock held Monday morning in Midland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raymond Hamilton
Elizabeth Glascock
Midland
Mercy Flights By Navy Station Aid Flooded South
On March 17 1929 aircraft from Naval Air Station Pensacola completed 113 mercy flights in 24 hours carrying food clothing and medical supplies to flooded towns in Southern Alabama and Western Florida.
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Naval Air Station
Pensacola
Fla
Alabama
Florida
Marine pilots land on Guam marking first overseas Marine aviation
Marine Corps pilots landed on Guam on March 17, 1921, marking the first deployment of Marine aviation outside the continental United States. The event signals a historic expansion of U.S. military aviation reach and strategic operations in the Pacific.
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Marine Corps
Guam
Langley Commissioned as Navy's First Aircraft Carrier
The USS Langley was placed in commission as the Navy's first aircraft carrier at Norfolk, Virginia, on March 21, 1922.
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Langley
Navy
Norfo& Va
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Ladies’ Aid
Lone Star Agriculture
Martin Company
Baltimore Seadrome
ISA
Seersucker
Jamaica
Dant
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