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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1959
Page
3
Mrs A D Lee promotes Winters Flower Shop offering orders wired anywhere anytime with phone contact PL4 2951 for florists services and delivery guidance.
An ad listing spring planting supplies from Winters Flower Shop and Carl Pool Fertilizers with Insecticides and lawn conditioning foods. Also advertised is a 12 foot chest type deep freeze about 4.5 years old from Odell Hipp Lone Star Camp Fort Chadbourne and a phonograph sales service from Main Radio and Electric with records and kiddie records.
A classified ad seeks a salesman aged 25 to 40 with no experience required. Leads furnished and earnings reported as $1000 per month. Respond to Dan Crowley at States General Life Insurance Company, 708 Jackson Street, Dallas, Texas.
Six Winters High School students travel to Austin to compete in the State Interscholastic League meet Friday and Saturday. Bill Miller will enter field events broad jump and 100 yard dash. Serena Minzenmayer and Naomi Busher attend debating. Pat Patterson ready writing. Marilyn Watkins shorthand. Carol Smith typing. Eligibility granted by the Regional Meet in Lubbock.
Tommy Mayhew son of Mr and Mrs Elmo Mayhew and a North Texas State College student entered the National Guild of Piano Teachers contest with three piano recordings. He earned 25 dollars per entry totaling 75 and won three gold medals. Judging occurred in Austin. He is a pledged Phi Mu Alpha Music Fraternity member.
The Winters Riding Club finished third in the parade at the Baird Rodeos. Ten riding clubs from the West Texas area competed and eighteen members joined the trip to Baird to ride in the event.
The Winters Sportsman Club will hold a meeting Monday at 7 30 p m at City Hall announced by president Aar on Wells. Refreshments of doughnuts and coffee will be served. All members are urged to be present.
Mrs. W. W. Wheat presents her pupils in recital in Blackwell School music room on Tuesday May 12 at 8 00 p m. Public invited. Performers include Penny McCarley Sharon Montgomery Georgia Nell Neily Jade Johnson Gary Harris Monty Pillion Connie Craig Bobby Harris Suzanne Hickman Sharon Kay Campbell Jenila Harris Charlotte McKelly Charlotte Cates Annette Stoepler and Wingate pupils Mike Magie Nancy Grisham Dyanna Medlock Sharon King.
Girl Scouts of Troop 7 held their weekly meeting Tuesday at the Scout Hut with leaders Mrs. M. A. Beavers and Mrs. C. O. Patterson. Dues were collected by patrol leaders. Plans for the Court of Awards were made and the girls practiced the flag ceremony.
The Winters Garden Club will hold a regular meeting Monday at 2 15 PM at the Country Club. Hostesses are Mrs George Briley Mrs W CO Webb and Mrs Joe Irvin. Mrs Court Meeks will present Exotic Flowers In America's Gardens with parts by Mrs M D Johnston Mrs Ralph Lloyd Mrs A N Crowley and Mrs Robert Everett. A report on district and state conventions will be given during the business meeting.
Mr and Mrs Harley Ryan of Sherman are visiting his parents Mr and Mrs J E Ryan.
Texas farmers push hybrid sorghum as a cash crop with 50 to 75 percent higher hybrid seed sales than last year. Hybrids boost grain sorghum yields by about 40 percent and Texas produced 273,066,000 bushels of the national total. Certified seed program by the Texas Department of Agriculture ensures quality but remains costly and challenging for smaller or less efficient farmers, with certified growers dropping from 200 in 1956 to 161 in 1958 and certified acreage shrinking from 22,000 to 13,344 acres. Carryover stock ac-
The article notes 1958 certified seed production lagging after 1957 bumper demand, with hybrid sorghum popularity rising. It warns a possible shortage of hybrid sorghums this year, but current supply and demand balance suggests a favorable season for Texas grain sorghums.
Guests at the T. F. Hantsche home include Don Ballard and spouse Abi lene Erwin Voss and spouse San Angelo E C Voss and spouse Wingate Arliss Hant sche Karen G P Oaken Ted F Hant sche Jr Hobbs New Mexico. Zane Ray Hantsche returns to Stonewall after three weeks with grandparents while his mother H D Hantsche visits Alabama.
Capt. and Mrs. Gilmore Sanders and their children of Smyrna Tennessee are visiting with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Mord Tucker and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Sanders of Bradshaw.
Mr and Mrs Max Vater and children of New Orleans along with Mr and Mrs Bill Harper of Fort Worth visited their parents Mr and Mrs August Vater and stayed by the bedside of their ailing father at Winters Municipal Hospital. Also visiting were Mr and Mrs Clifford Sherwood of Mason for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gerhart joined Mesdames Ellis Ueckert John Hiller E E Thormeyer and Walter Kraatz as they traveled to Amarillo Thursday for a Lutheran Missionary Federation meeting.
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