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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1969
Page
5
Spearman Baptist preacher Bill Shoemake shares reflections on changing diets from turnips to frozen foods, nostalgia for simpler meals, and how public attention skewed away from Brownwood's MacArthur Academy dedication. He critiques national TV coverage and political manipulation, urging civic action.
Ocie Hunt collects old eyeglasses sunglasses lenses and frames for New Eyes for the Needy. Reusable plastic frames go to medical missions and sun glasses to leper colonies while metal scraps fund new prescription glasses and artificial eyes in the United States. Send donations to 105 W 3rd Sweetwater Texas 79556 with return address and zip.
Beckey Mathis selected as Sweetheart of the 1969 70 Blizzard Band during halftime of the Winters Haskell football game. The Winters High senior, daughter of Mr and Mrs M E Mathis, has eight years with the band and serves as band president while playing clarinet.
Members of the Winters High School junior class will attend the homecoming musical West Side Story at Abilene Christian College in Abilene on Tuesday October 28.
Dr. Lois Martin of Hardin-Simmons University advised two counseling students whose articles appeared in Guidelines September 1969. Mrs. Marshall Wharton wrote Counseling Mentally Retarded Students while Marshall Hill contributed Counseling: A Skill in Cooperation detailing counselor roles with administration teachers and parents.
Winters merchants are asked to donate merchandise items for prizes at the Halloween Carnival in the Community Center on November 1. Donations should be delivered to City Hall by Friday October 31 to support the Boosters Sports Banquet and other projects.
The Billy Graham movie The Restless Ones scheduled for Monday October 27 at First Baptist Church was cancelled due to conflicts with other activities. It will be rescheduled and announced by Rev. Harry Grantz.
Winters city officials discussed replacing the open dump with a land fill system within the year as state rules may outlaw open dumping. A bulldozer may be purchased and earth moving equipment added, with avoid burning and odors by covering refuse in trenches. Prohibition of burning is under consideration while bids for a street sweeper and paving plans were also discussed for spring work.
The Winters Future Farmers of America chapter will elect an FFA Sweetheart for 1969 70 at 8 p m in the school auditorium Monday October 27 Candidates from all classes of Winters High School include seniors Priss Sanders Janice Pierce and Cindy West juniors Madelyn Bryan Phy lis Grissom and Cindy Davis sophomores Wandrae Parrish Denise Williams and Kathy Smith and freshmen Trish Hill Becke y Brown and Tresia Sharpes.
Mr and Mrs S T Anderson spent the weekend in Dallas visiting their son and daughter in law Bob Anderson. They attended the musical George M at the State Fair.
Winters High School was assigned to District 8-AA for 1970-71 and 1971-72 by the University Interscholastic League. The district includes Ballinger, Coleman, Cisco, Clyde, Comanche, Eastland and Hamilton. The move follows reclassification and uses 1967-68 and 1968-69 enrollments. Winters averaged 306. Football schedule for 1970 lists non district games with Hamlin Merkel Anson and district games against Clyde Ballinger Coleman Comanche Hamilton Eastland Cisco.
Blackwell raises Homecoming for ex-students and teachers on Saturday October 25 under President Wade Leuallen. Junior High football at 3 p.m. with registration 4 to 7 p.m. vàt 8 p.m. Blackwell High hosts Highland in football. Senior class funds barbecue supper and refreshments after the game in the old gym. Business meeting and Homecoming Queen selection follow.
Five Winters Chapter members of the Order of the Eastern Star will attend the Grand Chapter meeting in Fort Worth next week. Attending are Mrs. Roy L. Crawford worthy matron, Mrs. Kenneth Cook past matron, Mrs. John Swatchsue past matron, Roy L. Crawford worthy patron, and John J. Swatchsue past patron. Twenty-two members attended the stated meeting Monday night, with one visitor Mrs. Georgia Crab tree of Dumas mother of bars Ted Meyer.
Private Jake Hord son of Mr and Mrs Wesley Hord of Winters Texas has graduated eight weeks of basic combat training at Fort Bliss Texas He was in Company PD 1st Training Battalion 3rd Basic Combat Training Brigade and advances to Fort Ord California for advanced individual training.
Postcard ballots go to Winters Chamber of Commerce members to elect five board directors. Emma Marks says returns are strong but urged for quick tabulation at the November 4 meeting. Candidates include Carroll Tatum Gayland Robinson George R Hill M D Doc Johnston Mrs J W Bahlman H M Jiggs Nichols Walker Tatum Doyle Pumphrey LaDell Davis.
A five week Red Cross first aid course will begin November 4 with meetings each Tuesday at 6 30 p m The location will be announced later Ted Meyer the official Red Cross instructor will lead the course Interested persons should contact Meyer or Mrs Emma Winters at the Chamber of Commerce to sign up
The regular Fourth Monday Singing at Shep Community Center will be held Monday evening October 27. Some visiting quarters are expected to be present. The public is invited to attend.
Mrs. Fred Young RN Winters and Mrs. Jay Dunnam RN Winters attended a tuberculosis control workshop for school nurses in Brownwood last Tuesday, sponsored by the Central Texas Area TB Association.
Winters and Merkel meet in a key district game with both teams seeking a win to salvage standings. Merkel, in its second AA season, hosts Winters, who aims to bounce back after losses. Ray Cooper’s injury hinders Winters while lineups shift for upcoming non conference date.
Winters Blizzard football player Ray Cooper suffered a badly dislocated ankle with torn ligaments and a broken bone during the Winters Haskell game. He underwent surgery at Hendrick Memorial Hospital in Abilene and will have a pin for six weeks and a cast for six more. Cooper, son of Mr and Mrs Earl Cooper, will not play this year. Coach Jerry Gibson said his loss will be felt after he averaged 15 to 17 tackles per game.
Seven Winters Teen Age Library Association members joined District III TALA proceedings at Coahoma High School. Officers for District III were elected for June 1 1970 and include Linda Baker Big Spring president and Lucretia Drake Coahoma vice president.
Mr and Mrs Joe Baker visited Lonnie Collinsworth in Lubbock where he remains in intensive care at the hospital.
Shelby Pearcy of Ada Oklahoma will lead a two week revival at Winters Assembly of God Church starting Sunday October 26. Evening services at 7 30 with occasional schedule changes include no service Friday October 31 and a Saturday service next week. Pearcy, a former Oklahoma Arizona pastor and missionary, is a 1968 Southwest Assembly of God College graduate. Public invited.
Winters FFA members excel at the State Fair of Texas Junior Lamb Show in Dallas. Ricky Marks won first place in Class 11 Southdown Crossbred division. Other Winter s entrants earned ribbons in Suffolk Hampshire crossbred and Hampshire classes with multiple placings by Randy Sneed and Debra and David Carroll.
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