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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1959
Page
7
The Enterprise and Winters merchants salute the Runnels County Soil Conservation District and its work. A publicity stunt for the June rodeo is proposed a mustache growing contest with prize ideas. Bills aiding Winters fishermen passed to the Governor, regulating New Lake Winters and minnows transport.
Winters High School staff dedicated The Glacier yearbook to sponsor Weldon B. Middleton in a Monday assembly. Middleton helped produce the books and a fake dedication was planned for distribution with principal Rodney Cathey, marking his 10th year as sponsor. Middleton, a Winters native with Abilene ties, has a family and two children, Robin and Holly.
About 300 attended a barbecue dinner at Wilmeth as the Farmers Co-Op Gin held its annual stockholders meeting and officer elections. Bobby Simpson was elected president, Paul Pullin vice president, and Johnny Wilson was reelected secretary treasurer. Directors named were Anton Lange and L. B. Watson. Elmer Bryan is gun manager. Outgoing officers were Walter Oaken president and R. L. Hill.
The fourth annual Parade Of Music will be staged Friday evening in the High School auditorium. Band Director Robert Gans announces a 7:30 start with free admission. Students earning junior high band letters will be named and the eighteen eighth graders joining Blizzard Band next year will be honored.
Eugene Cochran, lay preacher from San Angelo, will preach at 11:00 Sunday morning at the First Presbyterian Church. Members are urged to attend and visitors are invited to hear the guest speaker.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith of Lubbock visited last weekend with Mr. and Mrs. E C Collinsworth, exchanging greetings and catching up on local news.
The Ballinger Ledger reports a Ballinger driven plan for a county hospital financed by Runnels County taxpayers. Winters residents already maintain their municipal hospital and worry about funding Ballinger’s project. The editorial urges Ballinger to issue city bonds rather than seek broader county support.
The Runnels Soil Conservation District marks its tenth year of operation. Original board members from 1949 include Clarence Spill, Ralph Burns, Lewis Rheinfeld, H Giesecke Jr., and Kirby Robinson with Giesecke as chairman reelected in 1954.
Winters High School senior Bill Miller, 138 pounds and 5 feet 10 inches, has emerged as a rising track star. He tied and then surpassed his own marks in broad jumps, breaking AA state records and posting standout jumps at Hamlin Invitational and Red Raider Relays in Lubbock Texas Tech. Miller leads AA schools in the state and sits near the overall state record.
Craven couple of Winters injured in a three car collision on U S 83 south of Winters. William Craven cashier at Winters State Bank suffers a fractured public bone and cuts while Mrs Craven has facial and other injuries. Wylie Barnal Stokes of Abilene is critically hurt with a fractured skull. two other Abilene residents have minor injuries.
Winters High School presents a spring concert on May 14 at 8:00 p.m. in the High School Auditorium. The Blizzard Band and mixed chorus will honor sixteen graduating seniors and feature a three-piece combined performance with songs including Let There Be Peace On Earth and Battle Hymn of the Republic. Soprano Sherry Mote will solo in I Could Have Danced All Night. Admission is 50 cents adults 25 cents students. children free.
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