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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1969
Page
5
Winters Chief of Police Joe Stevens reports many complaints of youngsters firing BB and pellet guns within city limits. He cites broken windows damaged autos and outed street lights and urges parents to prohibit play with these weapons and to provide proper instruction. He warns that pellets can pierce a one inch plank and kill at close range.
The second annual Junior Blizzard Relays take place in Winters with Albany Anson Clyde Batlinger Coleman Haskell Merkel Wingate and Winters fielding 7th 8th and 9th grade teams. Prelims start 8 30 a m finals at 2 p m with events across sprints relays and hurdles and ninth grade field events.
Readable fragments show daily temperatures and precipitation values for March including references to March 5 March 14 March 15 94 March 16 05 March 17 09 and 1.13. Also mentions Sunday March 23 with unclear data.
Three Hardin-Simmons University students from Winters Leroy McGallian Ronnie Reel and Johnny Mansell will join about 52 students in Indiana Baptist churches March 29 to April 6. The group splits into 16 teams to conduct week long revival services with preachers song leaders and pianists in White River and South Central associations.
Stevens reports nine cars burglarized Saturday night in Winters residential areas. Most cars were left unlocked with some in garages. few items of value taken and no suspect details provided. Chief Stevens notes the thefts occurred in scattered locations across town.
Ovalo Baptist Church will hold a youth led revival from Friday March 28 to Sunday March 30. Louis Sneed formerly of Drasco will preach with his wife as pianist and a Hardin Simmons student leading the singing. Prayer services start at 7 00 p m and song services at 7 30 p m. Everyone is invited.
Mrs. L. M. Boff left Saturday for Texarkana to visit in the home of her daughter Mrs. Joe Chisum and family.
Mrs. S. P. Gray has returned home after visiting her children and relatives in Odessa Lubbock Littlefield and with Brodie and Eldon Gray.
The Runnels County School Board directs payment of 6400 from Norton area taxes to Winters Independent School District for the 1968 tax year and future years. Dispute arises over legality of the meeting and detachment of Norton territory from Ballinger ISD to Winters ISD.
Elm Creek Water Control District has completed much planning with final construction pending state and federal approvals. The board, led by chairman W M Hays, met with U S Soil Conservation Service members from Runnels and Taylor counties to review progress and upcoming steps. The proposed boundary revision would remove Coyote Creek watershed areas, reducing the district to about 245 991 acres. A planning priority hearing will follow changes to determine need and landowner sentiment.
The Winters area plans a Sabin oral polio booster and first dose event Sunday March 30 at Winters school cafeteria with sugar cube vaccine no shots. Lions Club sponsors with nurse administrators and a 25 cent per dose request. no one will be refused.
Winters High School will host a district volleyball meet this week for teams from the southern half of the district. Merkel Coleman and Bal linger will participate. Winters will not enter. The Winters school will send representatives to the University Interscholastic League literary contests in San Angelo Saturday.
Winters announces the new Civic Center will be usable shortly with final floor finish, tables, and chairs to be ordered. Kitchen appliances will be procured soon. City Secretary Buford Baldwin says reservations have already been requested and some dates are filled.
Bob Logan field representative for the San Angelo Social Security Office will host April visits in Winters at the Chamber of Commerce office. He will be there Wednesday April 9 and 23 from 9 30 a m to 11 30 a m to help file claims get information or conduct SSA business.
Mrs Raymon Loyd RN of Winters and Mrs D Condra of Talpa named directors representing Runnels County in the Big Country Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association. Don Hensley of Sweetwater elected president with Condra secretary and Rainey Abilene and Dr Anderson San Angelo as vice president and treasurer. Headquarters set for San Angelo at 215 West First Street.
Labin oral polio vaccine given to 968 school children teachers and staff at Winters Elementary on Tuesday with 35 more students on Wednesday bringing the total to 1003. Lions Club chair James Colburn said 52 from Wingate school also received doses and boosters were administered on sugar cubes.
The Wingate Community will hold its annual Community Day at Wingate School on Tuesday April 1. A covered dish lunch starts at 11 a.m. A track meet follows in the afternoon with several schools invited. Field events begin at 12 30 p m running preliminaries at 1 p m.
The Runnels County Archery Association of Winters hosted the second League shoot with thirty archers from San Angelo Fort Stockton Abilene Odessa and Winters. Winters club holds three firsts three seconds and one third in league, rebuilt clubhouse near completion, and maintains a shooting range at Winters Lake.
Ballinger leader Hugo Vogelsang said the American Farm Bureau Federation backs extending the CCC cotton loan term to 12 months from placement and setting the resale price at 114 percent of the loan rate plus carrying charges. The change would let producers manage cotton longer and keep CCC from competing with markets.
Veterans of Winters Post 9193 will nominate and elect officers on April 14 at 7:30 p.m. The Ladies Auxiliary will elect April 21 at 7:30 p.m. Installations occur in May with new officers taking office after the State Convention in late June.
The Winters Public Library announces a Spring Art Festival on Saturday May 3 co sponsored by the Winters Library board and the Winters Chamber of Commerce. Amateur artists compete for ribbons in four categories while crafts are displayed but not judged. Judging by F E Walker of San Angelo at 10 am on May 3, with paintings shown May 13 to May 24.
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