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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1972
Page
5
A Fort Worth area survey shows about 80 percent of motorists pass stopped school buses with flashing signals. The piece urges drivers to pause for children and notes dangers when kids dart across after exiting buses. The column also describes reactions to a storefront mannequin and reflects on everyday attention.
Cole succeeds W F Minzenmayer on the district board after the annual tour last week. Minzenmayer served twenty years and ends his term in October. Cole and his wife Ollie Lou run a Winters area livestock operation with four daughters Glenda Jo Ergaleta Lou Ann and Robbie.
About 525 residents of North Runnels County signed up with the North Runnels Water Supply Corporation after the September 30 deadline. Engineers Yeats and Decker of Abilene will prepare planning maps for loans and grants as Winters and Ballinger provisionally agree to supply water once the system operates.
Rain in Winters for September was below the ten year average, with 2.88 inches, extending the year to 17.21 inches. Comparisons show 1971 had the highest annual total of 37.16 inches, while 1972 the monthly peak was 4.1 inches in May.
Scotty Belew of the Wingate Community was elected president of the Runnels County Farmers Union at the Winters Community Center. He succeeds L. B. Watkins. new officers include Mike Mitchell as vice president and Anthony Lange as second vice president. New directors are L. B. Watkins Cecil Tekell Ronald Presley Lavern O'Dell. Principal speaker F A Lollar from Anson spoke on aims and accomplishments. Belew recently returned from a Farmers Union trip to Minnesota with Mrs Belew and showed trip film.
The third and final aerial spraying of cotton fields in the Runnels Boll Weevil Control Area began this week and should finish by week’s end. The program covers land west north and southwest of Winters into South Taylor County to kill this year’s boll weevils and curb next year’s infestation. Cost is covered by voluntary cotton farmer payments with help from the State Agriculture Department. Results look promising but cannot be measured until next year. Bet weevil damage has been high in the area this year.
Dr Joe Pat Hemphill will be the guest speaker at the Winters Young Farmers meeting next Monday October 16 at 8 p m in the Winters school voag building. He will discuss determining pregnancy in cattle and all members plus others interested in agriculture are urged to attend.
Four girls were nominated for Homecoming Queen by two high school classes, two from the junior class and two from the senior class. Senior nominees are Landa Walker and Brenda Blackerby. junior nominees are Cheryl Whitlow and Chris Hays. The queens will be announced at the Winters Ballinger game on October 27.
Winters Housing Authority announces that starting Friday October 13 applications will be available for assignment to 46 units in the new project. The office moves to the East Parsonage and Grant streets building this week under Oliver Wood. Units include 30 for elderly and 16 for low income families, with eligibility screening by the authority board.
Winters firemen won first in the three man race and second in the single man event at the Hill Country Firemen and Fire Marshals Association convention in Sonora. Buddy Miller, Buddy Davis and Johnny Merrill were top three in their events, with Janice Henderson elected Sweetheart. The group also earned a silver man miles trophy and competed in water polo and nozzle races with several auxiliary members.
Andrew Englert, Runnels County director, appeals to grain sorghum farmers to mail 1972-73 GSPA dues promptly. He notes the drive supports making sorghum more profitable and cites the 1970 congressional action tying sorghum price supports to corn, boosting loan rates and support payments.
Brady game recipients Jerry Mack Jackson on offense and Ricky Mathis on defense were named Blizzards of the Week by Blizzard Boosters on Tuesday night.
Absentee voters may cast ballots in the Elm Creek Water Control District bond election at Winters City Hall and the County Clerk's Balil inger office. Absentee voting opened Wednesday Oct 11. The election is set for Tuesday Oct 31.
The Winters High School junior class sponsors a Halloween Carnival at the Winters Community Center on Tuesday October 31 at 7 p m. Booths run by classes and clubs feature games ring toss a spook house and other attractions. Groups with prior booth history may reserve concessions but must register by October 13 with Jim Jordan faculty sponsor.
Wingate Baptist Church celebrates 80 years from its 1892 founding with a week of services starting Sunday October 15. Rev. Charles Myers preaches morning, Rev. A A Watson returns Sunday evening, and other ministers lead through the week with guest speakers including Dr. T A Patterson. Dinner follows the Sunday morning service.
Congressman Omar Burleson 17th District and Ways and Means Committee member will be principal speaker at the noon luncheon October 20 during the West Texas Chamber of Commerce Mid Year meeting. The gathering in Lubbock was announced by Claude W. Brown president of WTCC. Hal S. Dry of Winters and other area WTCC directors were invited to attend.
Elm Creek Water Control District directors Purifoy and Hambrick promote a public information meeting in Ballinger October 19 at 8 p.m. to explain the proposed $300000 bond issue set for voter approval October 31. The plan includes flood control dams and possible water supply use for Ballinger and Winters with additional meetings planned in Winters October 26 and prior sessions held in Crews and Bradshaw.
Winters Independent School District adopts a looser yet controlled dress code after weeks of study and a high school survey. The policy allows coordinated pant suits and jeans with restrictions on fad styles, while trip attire requires stricter standards set by sponsors and administrators.
The city reports 609 025 in new and addition construction in the first nine months of 1972. The Winters Housing Authority project accounts for most of the total with a 543 000 permit to Alston Construction Co. for a 46 unit housing complex.
The Runnels County School Food Service Association met at the Miles school with twenty two members and one guest present. Mrs Margaret Hallmark is president. Mrs Billie Whitlow reported on the Houston convention and Mrs Margie Bouthe on the San Marcos workshop. The group voted to send the president to one state board meeting.
Two Hardin-Simmons University freshmen from Winters, Cliff Poe and Terry Lewis, were elected to class offices in Abilene. Poe won the president role in a runoff, Lewis was chosen as class congressman. Both are 1972 Winters High School graduates and are sons of Winters residents.
The Texas Highway Commission approved 101800 for highway and farm to market road improvements in Runnels County for 1973. The plan authorizes 49.6 miles of asphalt seal coat under the combined State Highway Safety and Betterment and Farm to Market Road Improvement program, supervised by James R. Evans.
John Smith of Winters pledged Silver Keys a men’s social club at Tarleton State College. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Jim P Smith of Winters and a junior biology major at Tarleton.
Winters Warehouse Company announced Monday afternoon that 576 bales of cotton from a crop were ginned at Runnels gins and brought to the local warehouse.
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