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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1971
Page
5
Winters residents rally behind the Blizzard Band as the 93 member group travels to Cisco for UIL concert and sight reading contests hoping for sweepstakes trophies. Local voters prepare for a big election day with multiple school and city posts on the ballot next Saturday.
Regular gospel singing at the Shep Community Center will be held Saturday March 27 at 7 30 p m. The public is invited.
Thomas Mayhew assistant professor of music at Stephen F. Austin State University built a 21-foot wooden fiberglass covered sailboat with a hollow spruce 30-foot mast in his spare time over about two years. He says the project was largely solo with occasional help from his wife. Mayhew, a Winters High School graduate, has lived in Nacogdoches five years with his wife and two children.
In 1932 Mrs. W. J. Hickam received quilt blocks from friends for a birthday gift. The blocks remained in a cedar chest for 39 years before she completed the quilt, which won a blue ribbon at a Beaumont hobby show run by the Women's Auxiliary to the Jefferson County Medical Society.
Sizable temperature dips marked the week with a high near 70 in places and a low around 30 on Thursday and Saturday, March 19 and 21, 1970. The period captured typical early spring volatility in regional readings.
Mrs. Charlsie Poe of Winters reviewed her book Runnels Is My County at an inter county historical appreciation program in the Coleman County Courthouse. The meeting followed an invitation by Mrs. C. D. Bruce of Santa Anna. The committee plans include adding abandoned school sites and continuing a five year project to enumerate graves and cemetery names in Runnels County.
Absentee voting is underway to elect three members to the Winters Independent School District board of trustees. The regular election is April 3, with ballots cast at the school business office from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except Saturdays and Sundays through the fourth day before election. Candidates include Place 1 Delbert Kruse Dale Whitecotton Dennis Poe Place 2 J W Bahlman and Place 6 Billy J Colburn.
Runnels County March of Dimes chapter announces a Miles for Children Walk on Saturday March 27. The 20 mile route starts at 9 a m at the Ballinger courthouse, goes to Rowena and returns to Ballinger. Participants raise funds via sponsors and entry forms are available at local high schools.
Mrs. Bill Bell chairs the American Cancer Society 1971 Crusade starting April 1 in Winters. Volunteers will visit every house and apartment to spread cancer education and raise funds. Leaflets on cancer prevention will be distributed and clothes hanger covers provided through Bahman Cleaners. Call 754-5210 to help.
High winds and dust could not stop 96 archers from across the state at the Runnels County Archery Association tournament. Walt Wesley of Plainview led men with 789, Mary Newell of Fort Worth topped women with 678, and Marvin Clark of Winters won the youth division with 620. About 60 campers and trailers occupied the RCAA course area and roughly 250 visitors traveled in for the event.
The Winters Lions Club plans its annual broom sale next Tuesday March 30. Members will canvass the business area and residential sections in teams selling brooms maps and other household supplies to raise funds for their projects.
Mr and Mrs Derrell Colburn announce the birth of their son Shane Christopher born March 19 at Lake Air in Waco. Maternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs James Ross of San Angelo and paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs Douglas Colburn of Winters.
Runnels County Heart Association reports a record Heart Fund Drive in Winters and surrounding towns. Total donations reached $1847.51, well above the goal, with Winters contributions across house campaigns, memorials, balloon sales, and business gifts. A committee led by Mrs. Mostad thanked canvassers including Elby Miller and many Winters volunteers for their efforts.
Ronald E. Rugh a range conservationist with the Runnels County Soil Conservation Service has earned a five year safe driving award. W W Hoffman notes the record results from defensive driving while Clyde W Graham approves the safety acknowledgment. Rugh will transfer to the Mason SCS office and report there in April under the Zero In On Federal Safety program.
The Big Country Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association will hold its Second Annual Membership Meeting on March 27, 1971 in the Angelus Room at Central National Bank San Angelo Texas with 10:45 a.m. registration. Dr. Robert H. McCarty will discuss TB control Region X and Texas. Mrs. Pauline Matthis will speak on association structure and volunteer challenges. Lunch follows then officer elections and reports. public invited.
John Grammer, field representative for the San Angelo Social Security office, will hold April sessions in Winters at the Chamber of Commerce on April 12 and 26 from 9 30 to 11 30 a m. Residents may file claims seek information or conduct SSA business. If unable to meet him contact the San Angelo office at 949 4608.
The 93 member Winters High School Blizzard Band travels to Cisco Friday for the University Interscholastic League concert and sight reading contests. They aim for first division in both events to earn a sweepstakes trophy, joining sixteen Class AA schools in competition.
Hardin-Simmons University organist Ronald A. Hough will give an organ recital at 3 30 p m Sunday March 28 at Winters First United Methodist Church on the Chapman-Denham Memorial Organ recently dedicated in the church sanctuary. He earned degrees from Wheaton College and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and a DMA from the University of Illinois. His teaching career includes Southwest Baptist College Mississippi State College for Women Western Illinois University and Hardin-Simmons University.
Winters Elementary School students in the sixth grade joined the Cheer A Veteran project by writing 69 letters to hospitalized veterans. Sponsored by Winters Post 9193 VFW and Ladies Auxiliary, letters went to the U S Veterans Administration Hospital in Houston and a Navy hospital on Guam.
In the Winters chamber membership drive two new members have signed on since last week. E. F. Albro of the Wilmeth Community and Ballinger Monument Co. are the new members. The campaign will continue for several days.
Runnels County protests the Selec tive Service move of the local draft board from Coleman to Brownwood. County Judge Eliott Kemp, draft board member Wade Carter, and Mike Zuniga spoke at a Coleman meeting, saying the move creates travel hardship and draws workers from Coleman. Kemp says letters to Senators and Representatives were sent and he asked Senator John Tower to keep the office in Coleman.
Extensive repair work is underway at the Winters Municipal Swimming Pool with dressing rooms being redone and related improvements around the facility. Kirke McKenzie will operate the pool this summer, and no opening date has been announced.
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