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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1969
Page
5
The piece recalls Veterans Day origins and honors fallen service members, noting Armistice Day history and World Wars. It also mentions a local football mixup where Friona and Crosbyton Chiefs played, ending with Crosbyton winning 29 21 and reflects on national duty and democracy.
Lone Star Gas Company asked the Winters City Council for authority to raise residential and commercial natural gas rates. Marshall Wharton presented the request. the council will study it with no action taken Monday night. The proposal sets 1 756 gross and 1 58 net per 1000 cu ft up to 1000 ft with higher charges above that, and offers 10 day net terms. The company cited rising field gas costs and higher distribution, wages, and borrowing costs since 1958 as reasons.
Winters Post 9193 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and its Ladies Auxiliary will sell Buddy Poppies on Saturday November 8 from 9 30 a m to 3 p m to aid disabled veterans and dependents. Max Lewis chairs the effort, aided by the Goal Diggers Club.
The Winters High School Blizzard Band will join twelve area high school bands in all district contests in Eldorado on Saturday November 8. Try-outs run 8:30 a m to noon, with winners forming the all district band for rehearsal 1 to 5 p m. The group will give a 7 30 p m concert in the Eldorado High School auditorium with free admission. Representing schools include Winters Ballinger Coleman Bangs Brady Eden Eldorado Hamilton Lampasas Llano Mason Ozona and Santa Anna.
Principal George Beard announced a workshop for twenty elementary teachers in the elementary school library. Clyde Warren, media coordinator of the Educational Service Center Region 15 in San Angelo, will conduct the session from 8 a.m. to 12 noon on Saturday November 8.
The Winters post office will observe Veterans Day on November 11 as a legal holiday. Postmaster H. M. Nichols announces no city or rural delivery and no window service. Mail will be distributed to post office box holders.
The fragment lists days from Thursday October 29 through Tuesday November 4, showing a consecutive event window across week boundaries with Friday October 30 and weekend dates included. It reads like a planning or schedule snippet without further context.
Winters chamber members vote by postcard ballots, electing Carroll Tatum M D Doc Johnston J W Bahlman George R Hill and H M Jiggs Nichols as two year directors to take office January 1 1970. Woodrow Watts names a committee to nominate officers for 1970 with the board to elect president vice president and treasurer at the December 2 meeting.
Open 1969 cotton crop gathering in Winters is slowed as wet weather delays deliveries. Only 270 bales have reached the Winters Warehouse from local gins at Winters and Wingate. After recent rains and light frost, hope rises for clearer weather to start gathering soon.
The Winters Lions Club will sponsor a rubella measles vaccine drive at Winters primary school on November 21 under the State Health Department. No charge for vaccine. Health Department provides for 5 to 10 year olds, Lions underwrites 1 to 4 years. Parental permission certificates will be sent home and available at the school.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Z. Moore and children visited Temple last weekend. They visited with daughter Sylvia a student at Scott and White Nursing School and stayed with Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Autrey. They also visited in Austin at the home of their daughter Mr. and Mrs. Pat Hammond.
Texas Agriculture Department official James Mallett outlines how the new state minimum wage, effective February, aligns with federal standards. The act sets 20 cent below federal wage and defines agricultural man-days as four hours of labor per day with livestock exemptions, plus penalties for false earnings and a path for higher bargaining. It covers nonagricultural workers at 1.25 to 1.40 dollars per hour, with piece rate rules to be established by late 1970.
Winters High School hosts Ballinger High in the Blizzard Bearcat showdown on November 7 at 8 p.m. The game caps Winters 1969 season with both teams chasing wins and playoff hopes, drawing a full Runnels County crowd. Ballinger enters as a strong 7-AA rival after mixed district results.
The Winters Masonic Lodge and local groups seek blood donors to replace blood already given for Mrs. Ralph Austin, seriously ill at Hendrick Memorial Hospital. Any blood type will be accepted and donors may give at the hospital. contact R. C. Thomas, John Swatchsue, T. A. Smith, or C. J. Murray.
The 1969 Blizzard football team seeks a Football Sweetheart to be crowned at halftime during Blizzard Field Friday night. Senior candidates include Phyllis Smith Betty Knight and Cody Folsom each active in cheerleading choir FTA Winds and student government with leadership roles in FTA and NHS and participation in the senior play.
A bonfire was planned downtown before the Winters Ballinger clash with fans asked to assemble at 8 p.m. Thursday night ahead of the game.
The Rev. Harry Grantz of Winters First Baptist leaves Abilene airport with Dallas ministers for the All-India New Life Crusade. He will travel via Chicago Paris to Tel Aviv Delhi and into India then Greece Italy and England before returning to Dallas November 29 after a multi city itinerary.
The Winters Art Guild invites the public to its studio in the Thormeyer Building at 108 South Melwood for an open house on Saturday November 8 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Members will display paintings for sale and Francis Walker from San Angelo will give an afternoon demonstration the finished piece to be donated to the Guild.
Bud Little, long associated with the antiaircraft unit, has returned to the Merrill Nursing Home in Winters. His condition remains unchanged despite the move.
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