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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 11, 1968
Page
5
R C Thomas notes National School Lunch Week observance at Winters School Cafeteria with visits by parents, staff, and board members. He cites shifts in noon meals, modern hot lunches, and cost efficiency, with over 600 meals served daily under federal aid ensuring all children are fed.
At a Church Fellowship Hall meeting last Thursday seventeen attendees named George Garrett president of the new North Runnels County Cancer Society. Other officers are Glenn Gray vice president, Mrs. Raymond Lloyd treasurer, and Mrs. LaDell Davis secretary. Board members include Mrs. Emma Marks, Mrs. Earl Roach, Mrs. Sallie Gray, Mrs. Elzie Cox, Mrs. George Garrett, Mrs. Wayne Solomon, Mrs. Bill Bell, Mrs. Willis Davis, Mrs. W. T. Nichols, Jake Joyce Beard, Homer Hodges Bowman, and J. W. Bahimani Robert Le Coughi directed the session.
Two day Dry Manufacturing Co Seco Park event crowned seven ladies across two flights after nine hole rounds Saturday and Sunday. Winners include Mrs E B Underwood high score trophy Mrs John McAdoo first in Championship flight Mrs Clarence Huckaby first in First Flight with Don Emmett Jimmie Simpson and Pat Wood placing in Second and Third positions.
The Winters Shooters Association hosts an annual benefit shoot on Sunday October 12 at the Winters City Lake range starting 1 p.m. Proceeds go to the West Texas Rehabilitation Center Abilene. Events include matches with high power rifles pistols 22 rimfire and trapshoot plus special events for seniors and boys under 12. Prizes donated by Winters merchants. Last year the association sent 185 to the rehab center.
Mrs Elizabeth Alderman of San Antonio visited last week in the home of her aunt Mrs A D Lee in Winters.
Winters city officials signed a contract with Yates and Decker of Abilene to draw plans for relocating the water tower on North Main Street. The move is required before Main Street rebuilding on US Highway 83 begins, with the Highway Department sharing costs. The council also hired Cherry Eckert Story of San Angelo to audit the city books, to start soon, as the fiscal year began in October. Contracts for the new Community Center foundation work are expected to start this week, with ground fills underway in City Park and steel to arrive within days.
Winters schools plan a reduced price noon meal with extra nutrition during National School Lunch Week October 13 to 19. Open houses for parents run each morning 8 to 9 in the cafeteria and a state wide All-Texas Products menu is encouraged.
A proclamation highlights the U S Congress and the President declaring School Lunch Week. It notes Winters School Lunch Program serves about 600 children daily and supports the local economy with a 1955 000 000 industry and 18 jobs. It credits school lunch employees for the program’s success and calls on citizens and teachers to learn.
U S Senate action last week confirmed H. M. Jiggs Nichols as Winters postmaster. Congressman Omar Burleson issued a telegram saying the Post Office Department will install Nichols in the Winters office in the reasonable future.
The Runnels County Heart Association formed at Winters City Hall on October 7. Officers include Bob Clark as president and Mrs Raymond Schwartz as vice president. Awards honored local volunteers such as Joe Stevens and John Gardner for past Heart Fund drive work. The Heart Fund drive is planned for February.
The Winters Chamber of Commerce reports new members signed up during the current membership drive. Additional members are expected soon as the membership committee continues its outreach. Joining entities include Zuniga's ENCO Station Winters Beauty Salon Johnny's ENCO Station and Foodway.
Winters Independent School District trustees approved installing a Language Laboratory at Winters High School. The lab will comprise individual booths with ear phones for recorded lessons, with remodeling to house the equipment. Completion is expected in coming weeks.
About ten Winters Elementary School teachers will attend a reading conference sponsored by the Texas Association for Improvement of Reading at Abilene Christian College this Saturday. Earlier, Winters teachers joined an art conference at San Angelo Central High School. Dr. Kenneth Wells of the Freedom Foundation will speak at the American Heritage dinner at Abilene Christian College next Tuesday night, with about twelve Winters teachers in attendance.
Mr and Mrs Wesley Hays owners of Western Auto Associate Store in Winters will leave Abilene Saturday and fly to New York. They will board an excursion boat for a week long trip to Bermuda as a reward for reaching sales goals. The store will close from Saturday October 12 and reopen Saturday October 19.
From San Diego California Miss Esther Harrell and Mrs J B Garvin traveled to San Angelo Thursday. They visited in the home of Mrs Albert Afflerbach and attended the funeral of Robert L Harrell last week in San Angelo.
Dancers from a wide West Texas section, ranging about 200 to 300 people, are expected to attend a square dance Saturday sponsored by the Westerners Square Dance Association. The event, at the Belles and Beans venue hosted by the Winters square dance club, will feature a grand march led by Jester Prichett, president of the Westerners, and Mrs. Prichett. The program lists acts like Silver, Sands, Schot, Jessé, and Polka Put Your Hat On as part of the festivities.
Winters high school Blizzards, 2-2, host Hamlin Pipers, also 2-2, in a Friday night league game at 8 p m. The Pipers swept Clyde 56 to 0 and beat Rotan 31-7 before a 7-6 loss to Cisco. Hamlin relies on running plays led by Robert Bolden and Ernest Ledbetter with James Asher versatile at end or quarterback.
Jake Presley of Crews Community was re-elected to the Runnels Soil and Water Conservation District board for a five-year term at a Crews Community Center election Saturday night. About 60 people attended. Presley will serve Zone 5 and step down as chairman, with Gunder Hays becoming chairman.
Winters Masonic Lodge will receive a Workshop attendance award at a Masonic Workshop meeting in Wingate on Monday October 14. The prize recognizes outstanding attendance during the spring series of Masonic Workshops, a Grand Lodge of Texas program to improve lodge officers. The Wingate meeting marks part of a semi annual program for officers of nearly 1,000 Texas lodges. The Winters lodge, the state's largest fraternal group, has about 250000 members. All Winters Lodge officers are urged to attend.
Walter A. Gerhart a Tarleton State College junior from Winters has been elected vice president of the Tarleton Collegiate Chapter of Future Farmers of America. He majors in agricultural education at TSC, is a Rodeo Club member and a 1966 Winters High School graduate.
Mrs A D Smith returned home on Wednesday from a vacation tour of the New England States. On the trip she was accompanied by Mrs EL Stephens of Stephen ville. They flew to New York City where the younger Love Smith joined them.
Mr and Mrs Rankin Pace plan a 25 day air tour starting Tuesday from Abilene to New York. They will visit Cairo Beirut Tel Aviv Nazareth Jericho and the Sea of Galilee, then Greece Rome Pompeii Naples Berlin and England with possible Ireland visit. Pace is former Winters postmaster and Mrs Pace was assistant postmaster.
Only 92 bales of cotton from the 1968 crop had been received by the Winters Warehouse Co. from two gins in Wingate and one in Winters up to Tuesday noon.
Mr and Mrs Ray Young of Dallas welcomed relatives for a weekend visit at the home of his sister Mrs Tn Nichols and other family members.
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