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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1969
Page
3
A dense list of visits and stays across Winters Abilene Abilene Midland and other nearby communities. Families including the Hales Hale Bragg and Faubions shared time at lakes homes hospitals and homes with numerous relatives and guests over a weekend. Notable items include Sean Kincaid’s death burial in California and hunting trips by Chuck Richardson and friends.
Weather across the Abilene territory shows frost with clear skies aiding harvests aiming for a December peak. The USDA Cotton Classing Office reports 30 500 samples for the week ending November 22, a drop from 56 000 last season, with total season classed at 67 000 versus 279 000 year ago.
Texas agronomist Neal Pratt of Texas A M University says recent rains boost winter pasture quality but cooler days limit growth. He advises allowing abundant forage before cold weather, then restricting grazing to two hours daily with hay or dry forage available afterward.
The Dallas Morning News publishes the 704 page Texas Almanac 1970-71 with new content on postwar Texas athletic records, a sunrise sunset map, minerals, Texas sheep and goat industry, deer counts by county, and Col. W. B. Travis Alamo episode. It includes updated political, educational, economic, and demographic data, plus tourism notes and Elizabeth Ney’s Sam Houston statue.
Family reports their son in law C H Willingham of Pecos injured in a car wreck and improving slowly. Kay Black and a Ballinger friend visited Ballinger and David Bryan family. Church of Christ ladies made cookies for Shady Oaks Lodge patients in Abilene. Several relatives attended funerals in Winters. Visits from California and North Runnels Hospital patient Miles Huckaby in Winters.
The Texas Almanac cover showcases the capitol in Texas. The edition features more color photographs than any prior edition since 1857. Editors, county agents, chambers of commerce, civic groups, UT Bureau of Business Research and Economic Geology, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Texas A&M and others contributed data.
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