Community effort needed for Winters Little League field
The Winters community works toward a new Little League ballpark on city land with help from the City Light Plant Department private firms and volunteers. Fences backstop and perimeter fencing remain plus site grading and ground smoothing before season start. Volunteers are urged to gather Saturday morning to contribute time and labor under LL Association president Dale Whitecotton.
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City of
Winters
Winters School
City Light Plant
Little League Association
Little League
Dale Whitecotton
LL Association
New
Winters Riding Club to Host Quarter Horse Show This Saturday
The Winters Riding Club thanks local merchants and individuals who donated toward trophies and ribbons for the upcoming Quarter Horse Show this Saturday. Contributors include Alder man Cave Milling & Grain Heidenheimer s Piggly Wigley Winters Enterprise Bedford Insurance Agency West Texas Utilities Mansell Bros Dry Manufacturing Co Bells C as h eway Grocery Higginbotham Lumber Co Winters Gin Co Rahiman Jewelers Dr C T Rives Hoppe Service Bill Graham Ola Graham John W Norman Winters State Bank Main Drug Herman S Men s Store Smith Drug Howard s Hardware Economy Food Store Bob Loyd Gene Wheat Joe Evans Sidnderson Huffman House and more.
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Winters Riding Club
Alderman-Cave
Milling & Grain,Co
Heidenheimer’ S
Piggly Wigely
Enterprise
Bedford
Surance ‘Agency
West
Texas Utilities
Mansell, Bros
Dry Manufacturing Co
Bell's
Casheway
Grocery
Rahiman
Jewelers
C. T. ‘Rives
Hoppe Mobile
Bill
Graham
John
Winters State Bank
Main’ Drug Co
Herman
Smith
Drug?Co
Howard's‘ Hardware
Bob
Loyd
Joe. Evans
Sidnderson
Huffman
House
Winters Quarter Horse Show Opens Saturday
The Winters Riding Club hosts a Saturday Quarter Horse Show at the club arena south of the city water plant. Post time starts at 8:30 AM with 38 classes from Youth Activity mares to junior all around. Judge Ray Lewis of Dell City oversees all events.
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Winters Riding Club
Winters
L. C. Fuller Jr
Fairy Fuller
Ray Lewis
Dell City
Winters High Band to Stage Spring Concert Friday
Winters High School Band under Jim Swofford presents its annual spring concert Friday at 8 p m in the high school auditorium. Several graduating seniors perform their last appearance, a Blizzard Marching Band movie is shown, and solo medals are announced.
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Winters High School
Jim Swofford
Sally Spill
Sylvia Moore
Sylvia Tinney
Mike Magee
Ida Martin
Marsha Hays
Junior Sanchez
Efrain Esquivel
John Patterson
Randall Conner
Byron Anderson
Jan Johnson
Blizzard
John, Patterson
Carolyn Blake
Terry Rives Invited To Greenbelt Bowl
Winters High School senior Terry Rives has been invited to play in the Greenbelt Bowl, a summer all-star football classic at Childress on August 12. He starred as a defensive end for the Winters Blizzards, earning all district end honors and honorable mention on the all area team.
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Terry Rives
Childress
Rives
C T. Rives
Gardner Jr completes eight-week Ft Ord training
Army Private First Class Gayle W. Gardner Jr. 23, son of Mr and Mrs Gayle W Gardner of Winters, finished an eight week administration course at Fort Ord California on April 28. The program covered military records preparation and forms along with Army filing fundamentals, typing, and office machine operation.
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Gayle W. Gardner, Jr
Gayle W. Gardner
Winters
Ft. Ord
Calif
Visitors at the Heard home include Echols and Edwards
Last week Mrs. Louis Heard hosted guests including Grady Echols of Mineral Wells and Gus Edwards of Wolford with accompanying spouses.
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Heard
Louis Heard
Grady ‘Echols
Mineral Wells
Gus Edwards
Wolford
Winters Class of 1967 Graduates Recognized
Graduates from Winters High School in 1967 are identified, highlighting Mike Magee Sylvia Moore and Mrs Ellis Zane Moore among the honorees. The fragment notes family and teacher mentions tied to the Winters community recognition event.
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Winters
Miss VFW District 22 Marsha Hays to Attend Corpus Christi
Marsha Hays representing the Winters VFW post was chosen Miss VFW District 22 at the San Angelo district convention. She will receive an expense paid trip to the state convention in Corpus Christi the last week in June.
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VFW
Marsha Hays
San Angelo
Cor
Corpus Christi
Winters Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ladies Auxiliary
Hays
W. M. Hays
Winters
Miss Winters
W.L. Collins
Miss Hays
Robert Donalson
District 22
Henry Manns
Jody Yancy
Jim Scott
Bill Watson
Winters Group
J. A. Henderson Jr
W. D. Hicks
Mel Stanley
VFW Post
Ramon. Hudson
Whitley Smith
Charles. Dry
W. L. Collins
C. H. Harrell
E. F. Miller Jr
Max Lewis
Don Marks
Winters FFA Livestock Judges Win State Championship
The Winters FFA livestock judging team defeated Garland FFA to win the Texas FFA Livestock Judging Team Championship at A and M University College Station on May 6. The team scored 1647 of 1800 with members Charles Brown Tommy Antilley and Allen Mills. Mills was fifth highest individual with 568 of 600. The win advances Winters to the National FFA Livestock Judging Contest in Kansas City next October.
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Winters
Future _ Farmers
America
Garland Ffa
Texas Ffa
Texas A
M. University
College Station
Charles Brown
James Brown
Tommy, Antilley
Frank*Antilley
Allen Mills
Weldon Mills
Allen
Mills
Texas
Kansas City
Three Winters Teachers Resign from Independent School District
The Winters Independent School District board accepted resignations from three teachers. Charlene Christian, in Winters six years, leaves for Denton with husband Robert Christian who resigned last week as superintendent. Frank Hibler, with three years in Winters, will move to De Soto as head bus.
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Winters
Independent School District
Charlene ‘Christian
Bedford among 772 apply for degrees at NTSU Spring
Michael W. Bedford of Winters is among 772 seniors applying for bachelor degrees at North Texas State University. Spring commencement exercises are set for 8 p.m. June 2 at Fouts Field. Bedford, son of Mr and Mrs Wayne Bedford Winters, seeks a bachelor of business administration in accounting. He graduated from Winters High School in 1963.
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Michael W
Bedford
Winters
North Texas State University
Fouts
Field
Wayne
Winters High
Winters School District completes property re evaluation notes
Winters Independent School District finishes a district wide property re evaluation by Pritchard and Abbott. The plan aims to equalize values for tax purposes and outlines rural versus urban valuation methods and financial implications for 1967 68 including a 1 073 student census and a 495 400 expenditure budget with 225 000 bonded debt.
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Winters Independent School
Pritchard and Abbott
Taypayers
Equalization Board
Winters
Board of Equalization
Winters Independent School District
U.S.C.A
Winters Independent
Band Mothers Officers Take Office Tuesday
Officers for the Band Mothers for the 1967 68 school year were installed in the Homemaking Cottage on Tuesday afternoon. Mrs Kenneth Cook was installed as president with Mrs Cal Mostad as vice president and Mrs Halley Schwartz as secretary.
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Kenneth Cook
Cal Mostad
Halley Schwartz
J. W. Bahlman
Clifford Hill
Shorty Foster
Jim Swofford
WHS
Winters athlete Jerry Awalt signs with Abilene Christian College
Jerry Awalt a Winters High School senior signed a letter of intent with Abilene Christian College becoming the first track and field performer signed by ACC for 1967. The 5 foot 10, 164 pound senior was a four year letterman with the Winters Blizzards and held multiple district and regional titles in the 440 dash with times around 49.4 to 49.5. He also starred in basketball and football earning all district honors as a halfback and linebacker.
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Jerry Awalt
Winters High School
Abilene Christian College
ACC
Awalt
Winters Blizzards
Blizzards
Junior Hi School Cheerleaders Are Elected For 1967
Paula Simpson was named head cheerleader at Winters Junior High School. Eighth graders Tandy Medford and Cynthia McLemore were also elected, along with seventh graders Patricia Hill and Aletha Whittenburg as cheerleaders.
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Paula Simpson
Robert Simpson
Winters Junior High School
Tandy Medford
J. T. Medford
Cynthia McLemore
W. A. McLemore
Patricia Hill
Clifford Hill
Aletha Whittenburg
van Whittenburg
Visiting Here Nancy Norman Plans Return for Summer School
Nancy Norman, a student at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, is visiting between semesters and expects to return for summer school.
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Nancy Norman
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Fort Worth
Randall McWright Inducted into National Honor Society
Randall McWright a ninth grader at Mann Junior High School Abilene was inducted into the National Honor Society on May 3 son of Mr and Mrs O B Raper.
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Randall McWright
O. B. Raper
Mann Junior High School
Abilene
Randall
Mann
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Riding Club
Greenbelt Bowl
Gayle Gardner, Jr
Mike
Mr Magee
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Ellis Zane
Moore
Sylvia
Pus Christi
Winters Vfw
Winters Ffa
Winters Schools
Mike Bedford
NTSU
Colorado St
James Oy
Pat Patterson
Funeral Home
C. T
Pat) Patterson
Bell-Seale Funeral Home
Snyder
Hillside Memorial Gardens, Inc
Hillside Memorial Gardens
Bell Scale
Ethel
Methodist Church
Winters Country Club
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Willie Graves
Band Mothers
Weldon Brown
Willie Davis
ACC Wildcats
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