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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1961
Page
5
A fragmentary exchange unfolds in a hotel lobby where a doorman reads an upside down welcome mat. A man asks about a mascot and a family scene shows Clarence and Horace amid a casual conversation about teaching and current events.
The 1961 Winters High School Blizzard football team reveals a 1962 schedule with a shift to District 6-AA joining Haskell Hamlin Stamford Anson and Ballinger. Non conference games include Brady Albany Coleman and others. The setup extends two years with only game locations changing.
The Winters FFA chapter will send team members Eugene Mathis Jim Shook Lyndon McBeth Donn ie Gibbs Carlton Parks Kenneth Adama Edwin Deike to Huntsville December 2 for state FFA contests at Sam Houston State. Advisors Lon McDonald and Leland Roth accompanied the group to Stephenville where the team won first place in the Area 4 leadership contests.
Winters High School Blizzard Band earned a top first division rating at the University Interscholastic League contest in San Angelo. The Winters High School Majorettes also won first division in twirling, under Drum Major Marcene Mathis, with medals to be awarded at the December band and choir concert.
Tommy Elmo Mayhew of Winters has been selected to represent North Texas State University in the 1962 Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. Thirty-five students out of 8,835 were chosen for high scholastic standing and active participation in student government publications debate music art drama athletics and ROTC. Mayhew, son of Mr and Mrs W E Mayhew, is a graduate student in the School of Music and has held radios club and Methodist Student Movement positions while earning music scholarships and performing with the Abilene Symphony and at Oklahoma State University.
A singing is planned at Drasco Baptist Church on Sunday November 26 starting at 1 30 pm and continuing to 4 pm. Everyone is invited to attend this church event and join in the performance.
Peace Corps examinations will be held in Abilene at the Post Office Room 331 at 8 30 a m on November 28 and 29 for local applicants Postmaster Rankin Pace announced posters with the details will be on display in the local post office bulletin boards
Mr and Mrs W M Hays attended the Reserve Officers Association dinner and charter meeting at Dyess AFB Abilene Monday evening and heard an address by Senator Ralph Yarborough. Hays is a Commander in the Naval Reserve.
Fragmentary report notes hail and rain during an early Wednesday period with unclear timing. Named locations or authorities are not identifiable in the readable text. The fragment suggests unsettled conditions but lacks concrete measurements or events.
Kenneth R Lloyd formerly of Winters and now living in Columbia South Carolina has joined Dora Gray Studios interior decorating firm in Columbia. A University of Cincinnati graduate he trained in a five year cooperative program and helped form the first student affiliate chapter of the American Institute of Interior Designers serving as its president. He has studied furniture design color theory and architectural elements and has traveled to Japan and Okinawa.
A Dallas item mentions Mrs V Colburn and various relatives with others tied to the case in a brief family notice.
Winters official opening of the pre Christmas season centers on the Kiddies Parade on December 6 led by the Winters Chamber of Commerce. Winners of home decoration contests cash prizes and two cash drawings will unfold December 16 and December 22 with prizes from 50 to 5 dollars. Santa Claus will attend and a Winters High School concert is planned though date is pending.
Five Winters post office mail carriers received Safe Driver Awards. W. E. Little for 26 years, Ray L. Hollingshead 19, M. T. Bridwell 11, W. S. Cooke 10, and Dennis Rodgers 1 year. The badge certifies safe driving and courtesy, part of the Post Office Department safety program. In the last year, 756 drivers logged 31 years and 10,167 drivers completed one year of safe driving.
By Wednesday morning the three Winters gins had produced 3579 bales of cotton from the 1961 crop. Unfavorable weather has slowed picking and farmers await a killing frost to finish defoliation and begin stripping.
The Winters girls basketball team will participate in a Dyess Air Force Base tournament next week. Games are set for Thursday Friday and Saturday in the base gymnasium, featuring sixteen Abilene area teams.
Mrs and Mrs Ean Davia of Big Spring visited the George Shuffield residence after a recent house fire. The incident prompted local responders and residents to assess damage and determine causes.
Members are reminded to return post card ballots for the Winters Chamber of Commerce directors election by December 4. Five directors will be chosen to serve two year terms. Candidates include M. G. Middlebrook F. R. Anderson Jerry Ward J. W. Rahiman James West Bill Bell Pat Patterson P. L. Harrison Ellis Zane Moore Clarence Alfrey and William D. Parrish.
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