This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 15 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1966
Page
5
The Winters Chamber of Commerce invites clubs and businesses to build floats for the December 3 Christmas Parade with cash awards up to 25 dollars for clubs and trophies for the business category. Judges will be from out of town and community support for local industry is urged.
A Colorado company expects to hire 25 to 30 workers within a year to build and erect a new structure featuring built in freezer and cooler compartments and expansive display shelving. Inquiries have come from as far as Peru.
The Morrisons announce the grand opening and open house of the Food Mart on North Main Street Saturday Oct 15. Refreshments run from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. The store at 204 North Main offers groceries ice frozen foods camping supplies sundries and more with off street parking. Mozelle Branham assists the Morisons in operating the new Winters company prefab building store.
Winters Industry unveils a new self-contained pre-fabricated Food Mart building by Creative Products Inc. The first unit will be shipped to Denver on October 24, arriving complete and ready to assemble in one day. The design targets affordable, expandable community grocery stores with foreign export interest noted in Lima, Peru.
Winters Chamber of Commerce will not sponsor a single drawing this year and instead merchants will run their own promotions during the Christmas program. Moonlight Sales are slated for November 17 and December 22 with individual drawings for merchandise or cash. Merchants will stay open until 8 p m on both dates and must report their planned merchandise to the Chamber office to tabulate total retail value.
Father Edward Couch O.M.I. of San Antonio will fill the pulpit at Mount Carmel Catholic Church Sunday. Father Taylor, on vacation, announces Couch will hold seven and eleven o'clock masses and deliver a short English sermon.
Mrs Walter Kraatz receives her daughter Connie and son in law Mr R D White along with Connie's parents Mr and Mrs Walter Kraatz for a weekend visit in Texarkana.
Winters community gears up for the Junior Livestock Show on January 7 with a membership barbecue October 18 at the show barn. The Winters Wingate 4 H program features division superintendents and officers, while the Chamber of Commerce promotes a large 1966 Christmas Program including Moonlight Sales on November 17, a December 3 parade, float and band prizes, and home decoration contests.
Mike Hays a student at North Texas State in Denton spent the past weekend with his parents Mr and Mrs Wes Hays.
The Runnels Association will hold its annual meeting at the First Baptist Church of Miles on Monday October 17. Afternoon session begins at 2 30 p m and the evening session at 7 p m. The annual sermon will be preached by Rev Charles Myers pastor of Wingate Baptist Church and chaplain at Hendrick Memorial.
Winters High School hosts the Haskell Indians in a 1966 district 5 AA opener. Winters comes in 2 2 1 while Haskell sits 3 1 1 in pre district play. Probable starters and key stats outline a tight defensive battle as both squads seek footing in conference play.
Winters High School announces co captains for the 1966 season Terry Rives and Skip Sheppard join Terry as leaders. Rives, a two year letterman, plays defensive linebacker and offensive end and has track experience including mile relay at State. Sheppard, a senior, is offensive guard and defensive tackle with track and shot put credentials.
Winters Post and its Ladies Auxiliary aid the Veterans Administration Hospital in Big Spring by furnishing a library section and sending 251 books this year. They also fund patient needs, provide clothing food and toys for local veterans, support the National Home for Widows and Orphans, and loan hospital beds a wheelchair and crutches locally.
Paula and Diana Downing, daughters of Dr and Mrs Lloyd Downing, from San Angelo, arrived in Winters as visitors.
Work on Winters water settling basin continues with a new pump house near the clarifier and completed ladders and walkways. Mayor Hays estimates completion in about a week though large-volume pumps are still awaited from manufacturers with no definite shipment date yet.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.