Operation Sparkle Presented To Winters Lions Club
Winters Lions Club heard about Operation Sparkle a clean up paint up fix up program sponsored by the 132county West Texas Chamber of Commerce. Bob Johnson described slides showing how communities can sparkle ahead of 1958 tourist influx for Mexico games Hemis Fair San Antonio and Texas celebrations. Ballinger reports and ORC polling on inflation and federal spending show rising concern while a 1958 tax increase looms and voters balance cuts versus taxes.
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Lions Club
West Texas
Writers’ Chamber of Commerce
Ballinger
Mitchell Crowned Homecoming Queen by WHS Ex-Students
Mrs. A. L. Mitchell was crowned Homecoming Queen at Winters-Hamlin Friday night during halftime of the Winters High School football game. She was escorted by J. C. Wilkerson and Rupert McCasland, with crown by Miss Mattie Cooke and flowers by Maria Shaw. Mitchell, a Winters native and 1937 alumna, has deep local ties and family active in education and church.
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A. L. . Mitchell
Winters-Hamlin
Winters High School
Mitchell
Lila Smith
Winters
Garner Young
Lubbock
Mitchells
Pumphrey Baptist Church
Winters Blizzards conquer Hamlin 33 to 7 in homecoming clash
Winters Blizzards defeat Hamlin Pied Pipers 33 7 to stay undefeated in district play. Jerry Awalt rushes for 132 yards on 19 carries with a 20 yard opening score and a 34 yard TD run. Fred Gray kicks two extra points and one failed, while Ronnie Gray and Danny Killough lead with seven tackles each and two interceptions as Winters tops Stamford next.
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Hamlin Pied Pipers
Winters
Hamlin
Jerry’ Awalt
Fred Gray
Blizzards
Jerry Awalt
Alvin Dunn
George Mostad
Jerry
Fred
Gray
Skippy Sheppard
iPis
Dunn
Ronnie Gray
Ori
Ronnie “Gray
Danny Killough
Jimmy ‘Vaughan
Walter Morrow
Stamford Bulldogs
Visitors from Snyder at Tierce home
Mr and Mrs Bob Hammond with Mike and Kay Lynn of Snyder spent the weekend visiting at the Tierce home.
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Bob Hammond
Mike
Kay’ Lynn
Snyder
Tierce
Texas Tech Student Mike Mitchell Featured
Texas Tech highlights student Mike Mitchell in recent campus feature. The piece notes Mitchell's involvement in on campus life and academic pursuits, reflecting the university's student body.
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Texas Tech
Mike Mitchell
Texas. Tech
Resistance To Skip Row Rule Urged By RPCG
Farmers in the Rolling Plains contend a USDA ruling harms skip row cotton growers. RPCG officials say 1967 yields fall short of 1966 in most RPCG counties, with six to seventy percent of losses deemed unjustified. They warn the decision could cut Rolling Plains payments by about four million dollars and call for public letters to the Secretary of Agriculture.
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RPCG
Rolling Plains
Charles Stenholm
USDA
Fisher County Farmers’. Union
Skiprow
Makdingsa- AN Bes
ASCS
Runnels TSTA Unit Hears Talk On Legislative Plans
John Hill of Austin outlined the 1966 67 legislative program for the Texas State Teachers Association at a Runnels County Unit meeting held Tuesday in the Winters High School Auditorium. The program covers salary sick leave retirement professional practices and continuing contracts.
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Texas State Teachers Association
John Hill
Austin
TSTA
Winters High
Avid ‘Ledbé
Winters High School Ex-Students Elect Robinson President
Ex students of Winters High School elected Gayland Robinson of Winters as president of the Ex-Students Association after the Homecoming game. Ed Fisher of Abilene was named vice president and other officers include Mrs. Frank Brown of Winters as secretary treasurer and Mrs. George Poe of Winters as reporter.
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Ed Fisher
Abilene
Frank Brown
Winters
George Poe
Robinson
James Brown
Bill Robinson
John Gardner
Buford Baldwin
Dennis Poe
Brown
Poe
Frances Campbell
Neil Colburn
Willis Davis
E. Z. Moore
RCARC Plans Public Relations Campaign
The Runnels County Association for Retarded Children forms a public relations committee with Peggy Casey as chair. Dr Louis J Cole resigns as president and Mrs Walter Spill presides at a Monday Ballinger board meeting. A public meeting is planned at the courthouse on November 28 at 7 30 pm with a guest speaker from the Texas Association for Retarded Children.
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Runnels
The
Court House
Texas. ‘Association
Winters FFA Boys Sweep at State Fair in Dallas
Winters FFA wins first in best overall fat lamb exhibit at the State Fair Junior Show in Dallas. Allen Mills takes first in Suffolk fat lamb, Charlie Brown claims first in Shropshire, with others placing in Shropshire Hampshire Suffolk and Southdown divisions. Dennis McBeth earns a blue ribbon in market steer. Winters Junior Livestock Show set for Jan 7 at local show barns.
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Winters Ffa
Dallas
Jimmy Smith
Winters
Allen Mills
Suffolk
Charlie Brown
Shropshire
Jimmy Morrow
Hampshire
Walter Morrow
Students See DPS Driving Demonstration
Winters High School students witnessed braking demos by DPS officers using a car with adjustable brakes. The display included time lapse braking and a shot to mark stopping distance, with Winters police on hand to assist.
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Department of Public Safety
DPS
Winters ‘Police ' Department
Joe Stephens
Buster ‘Dillard
Doc Smith
Winters Blizzards Meet Stamford in District Showdown
Winters Blizzards, leading District 5-AA with Stamford in pursuit, face Stamford at Bulldog Field in the last away game of the season. The 2-0-0 Winters clash with a 1-0-1 Bulldogs squad before a 7:30 p.m. kickoff, as injuries threaten key players John Sims and Terry Rives but may not sideline them.
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Winters High School Blizzards
Stamford
Colorado City
Anson
Nippers
Bulldog
John Sims
Terry Rives
Hamlin
L. G. Wilson
Joe Lawson
Frank Fisher
Bob Duggan
van Grimes
Mike Matthews
Raymond Cedillo
Winters Schools Dismiss Early For Stamford Game
Winters schools will dismiss at 2 30 Friday afternoon to allow bus routes to run and return in time for the Winters Stamford football game Friday night. Tickets for the Winters Colorado City game in Winters on November 4 go on sale at 8 am Thursday November 3 at the school business office.
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Stamford
Colorado
Winters High School Honor Roll First Six Weeks
Eleven students earned no grade below B with at least one A in all subjects. A list of students achieving varied counts of A grades across nine or more subjects is provided, led by those with five A’s. The report details individual performance across groups from five A’s to one A with four B’s.
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Winters High School
Sammy Graham
Lenda Fuller
Linda Maas
Jo Nell Simmons
Donna Benson
Robert Moore
Dora Snell
Mike Magee
Joyce Englert
Candy Allen
Sylvia Moore
Darrell
Meg Leathers
Cindy West
Theresa Meyer
Mike Emmert
Bob Colburn
Mike Pumphrey
Anna Holder
Stephen Smith
Larry Rozmen
Theresa Emmert
Jo Crouch
Tommy Chapmond
Bill Baldwin
Roger Nichols
Winters Elementary and Junior High honor roll list
Thirty two pupils across four grades at Winters Elementary and Junior High posted average scores of 90 or above for the first six weeks of the 1966 67 school year. Principal Beard announced the achievement and named fourth grade honorees Paula Meers and Kandy Rouvei among others.
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George
M. ‘Beard
Paula
Meers
Kandy
Rou
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RB. C. Thomas
Opinion Research Cooperation
Princeton
N. J
National Association of Manufacturers
ORC
A. L. Mitchell
Queea
WHS
Allen Andrae
Robinson Ass'n
Rupert McCaslard
Morton
Robert Paschal
James West
Homer Fish
Naomi Stephens
San Angelo
Boyd Bedford
R. J. Bauer
Mary Louise Parramore
Deward Awalt
Nell Colburn
Morris Sullivan
Glenn Hoppe
Doris Clark
John E. Griffin
Virginia Claire ‘Smith
Euel D. Stephens
Gertie Marie Parks
Tom Raley
Wheaton, Till
Jane Frances Williams
RCARC
Dorsett
Bulldogs
Haskell
Coleman
Seymour
Johnny Powers
Lanny Bahlman
Skip Sheppard
Alan Andrae
Sam Scott
Fred Wilder
Alfonso Esquivel
Larry Donica
Danny Killough _T
Sheppard
Jimmy Vaugh
Lb—Awalt
Donald Wade
Robert, Guevera
Randy Boles
Johnny Craven
Vasnen Ah
Elemntary, Jr. High
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