Local business owner lists unusual meat substitutes amid crisis
Balkum's Grocery owner Wilmer Balkum offers Armadillo Fillets Local Cottontail Possum and Rattlesnake meat as substitutes to meat hungry customers amid rising prices and shortages. Winters and Ballinger consider Elm Creek watershed flood control project with a joint multi purpose dam financed by grants or revenue bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilmer Balkum
Balkum’s Grocery & Market
Winters
Ballinger
Elm Creek Watershed
Elm Creek
Soil Conservation Service
SCS
Winters and
Weather Listings And August 1973 Report
Temperature forecasts for August 2 to September 4 show highs around 95 degrees and nightly lows near 64. The precipitation report notes 0.45 inches on Wednesday August 1, 1973, with a comparison to last year’s dates.
City Council Approves Water Rate Increase
Winters city council gave final approval Tuesday night to an ordinance raising water rates. The new rates will take effect with the next billing cycle.
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Winters City Council
North Runnels staff begin four month coronary care course
North Runnels Hospital nurses join a four month coronary care program presented by Shannon West Texas Memorial Hospital San Angelo. Classes meet one night weekly with instruction on heart monitors defibrillators and ICU equipment taught by San Angelo cardiologists Dr Bill Mieher and Dr Vick Schultz Jr. Completion earns certificates to operate monitors and defibrillators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Runnels Hospital
Shannon West Texas Memorial Hospital
San Angelo
Bill Mieher
Vick Schultz Jr
Cardiologists
Gospel Singing at Shep On September 8
The regular gospel singing will be held at the Shep Community Center on Saturday September 8 at 7 30 p m. The public is invited to attend this singing. Refreshments will be served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shep Community Center
Winters Livestock Directors Meet Monday
Officers and directors of the Winters Livestock Association will hold a meeting Monday September 10 at 8 p m in the school vocational building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winters Livestock Association
School
Vo Ag
Visitors Gather at Buck Smith Home in Dallas and Winters
Dr and Mrs Roy Austin Toni and Gregory of Dallas Mr and Mrs Gary Antilley Shelly Bryan Mr and Mrs Jim Haddon and Shea John Smith Theresea Thompson of Austin and Mr and Mrs David Smith of Winters visited the Buck Smith home recently.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buck Smith
Roy Austin
Toni
Gregory
Dallas
Gary Antilley
Shelly Bryan
Jim Haddon
Shea
John Smith
Theresa’ Thompson
Austin
David Smith
Winters
Patterson Home Welcomes Extended Family Over Weekend
The Patterson household in Winters hosted a large gathering with Mr. and Mrs. William Patterson and an extensive list of relatives. Attendees included Edwina Patterson and Ted from Pensacola Florida, Fred Oaken and family from Moore Oklahoma, Yollie Pierce of Wichita Falls, Milton Patterson, Weldon Brown, John Hancock and children Rebel and Mandy of Winters, Theresa Patterson and Chuck and Stephen from Winters, Robert Mace and children from Arlington, Jim Carver of Wichita Falls, and Mamie Wilds from Rio Hondo who stayed several days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Patterson
Edwina Patterson
Ted
Pensacola
Fla
Fred Oaken
Sharon
Susan
Moore
Okla
Yollie Pierce
Wichita Falls
Milton Patterson
Weldon Brown
John Hancock
Rebel
Mandy
Winters
Theresa Patterson
Chuck
Stephen
Robert Mace
Lisa
Sandra
Julie
Kathy
Arlington
Jim Carver
Patterson
Mamie Wilds
Rio Hondo
Grandson Tells of Chile Open Door Exchange Trip
Jon McMillan grandson of Winters and Pawling residents described a summer in Santiago Chile as an Open Door Exchange Student amid political crisis. He recounted shortages lines and curfews and noted fear and warnings from host family about potential revolutions and dictatorship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jon McMillan
T. A. McMillan
Winters
L. O. McMillan
Pawling
N. Y
Santiago
Chile
McMillan
Salvador Allende
Disabled Vet Tax Exemption Bill Voided by State
Runnels County Tax Assessor-Collector Jack Farmer says state Comptroller notices HB 80, passed by the 63rd Legislature, is void in its entirety. The Attorney General advised no exemption until new legislation. Inquiries into the exemption have increased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Farmer
Runnels County
Farmer
Comptroller
Attorney General of
Texas Today
Runnels
Harold Wilson Completes Navy Basic Training
Harold R. Wilson of Tuscola graduates from recruit training at the Naval Training Center in Orlando Florida. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Don H Wilson of Route 1 Tuscola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harold Wilson
Navy
Harold R. Wilson
Tuscola
Naval Training Center
Orlando
Fla
Don H. Wilson
Route 1
Drasco Homecoming Draws 118 Attendees at Winters Center
The Drasco Homecoming on September 3 at the Winters Community Center drew 118 people. Rev. Clyde Jackson presided and delivered the welcome, with Rev. Emmett Brooks of Abilene as speaker. Longtime residents were honored and officers for the next year were elected.
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Drasco
Winters Community Center
Clyde Jackson
Emmett Brooks
Abilene
A. T. Williams
Labor Day
Chester Smith
Ed Donica
D. A. Dobbins
Zack West
Perry Wood
Berry Baker
Don Scott
Albert Baker
Alma Daniels
John Hardy
Boyce Gregory
Roy Brooks
Susie Given
Andrew Lee Williams
Brock Hodnett
Gordon Nix
Mayhew
O. C. Hill
Elmo Mayhew
Vesta Smith
Mable Williams
Charles Mitchell
James Mitchell
Woodfin
W. A. Porter
Winters City Council Keeps 1973 Tax Rate at $1.50 Per $100
The Winters City Council approved no change to the annual tax rate for 1973 set at $1.50 per $100 with 50 percent valuation. The meeting also reviewed electric water and sewer rates, authorized funds for a new water department pickup, and invited bids for airport paving and access roads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Water Department
Robinson Chevrolet Co
Band Boosters To Meet Monday For Freshman Push
The Blizzard Band Boosters announce the first meeting of the season will be Monday September 10 at the Band Hall. Presidents Mr and Mrs Earnest Brown urge all members and parents especially freshmen parents to attend.
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Blizzard
Earnest Brown
Portales and Alpine visitors stay with G W Scott family
Mrs Flora Bridwell and the Bridwell children of Portales New Mexico visited with Mr and Mrs Sam Scott and their children Jodie and Codie from Alpine over the weekend at the home of Mr and Mrs G W Scott Jr in Scott home.
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Scott
Flora Bridwell
Bill .Bridwell
Portales
N. M
Sam Scott
Jodie
Codie
Alpine
G. W. Scott Jr
Farmers urged to sign up for Farm Electrification short course
Area farmers are urged to enroll in the Farm Electrification short course to be held September 17 to 20 at the Winters High School Vocational Agriculture Building. Stanley Blackwell said classes start at 8 p.m. with Cleve Walkup and Texas A&M engineers teaching. A $5 registration fee applies and certificates will be issued to those who attend all sessions. Interested farmers should contact Superintendent of Schools Stanley Blackwell.
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Winters High School Vocational Agriculture Department
Lo Ag
Stanley Blackwell
Cleve Walkup
Vocational Agriculture Division
Texas Education Agency
Department of Agricultural Engineering
Texas A&m University
Superintendent of Schools
Zinser Named New Assistant For Lung Association
Joe Zinser is appointed as the program assistant for the Big Country area of the American Lung Association of Texas. The post, announced by Mrs. Raymon Lloyd, R N, local board member, notes Zinser’s Angelo State University degree and past schooling. The office for the 32 county Christmas Seal agency remains at 1962 West Beauregard in San Angelo.
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Joe Zinser
Big Country
American Lung Association of Texas
Raymon Lloyd
R. N
Runnels
Zinser
Angelo State University
Brebeur Preparatory High School
Indianapolis
Ind
Florida Institute of Technology
Melbourne
Fla
Angelo State
Joan Burkholder
Trans-Pecos
West Beauregard
San Angelo
French Tourist In Winters Home on Bus Tour
Marie Grancois Musnier of Flaine France toured the United States by bus visiting Elva Cavallaro and the Shook family. The real estate representative from near Geneva began in Quebec and traveled through Northwest states California Nevada Texas meeting locals and sleeping in nontraditional places. She praised bus travel as a better way to see the U S and planned to repeat the journey before departing to New York for a jet to Iceland and back to France.
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Marie Grancois Musnier
Flaine
France
United States
Elva Cavallaro
Garland Shook
Miss Musnier
Geneva
Switzerland
Canada
Quebec
Northwest States
California
Nevada
Texas
Iceland
Lions Club Golf Tourney Set for September 15
The Winters Lions Club will sponsor the second annual Lions only golf tournament at Winters Country Club on Saturday September 15. Lions Club members from a wide area have been invited to participate, and the course will be closed to nonparticipants that day.
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Winters Lions Club
Winters Country Club
Lions Clubs
Country Club
Winters Blizzards Open 1973 Football Season At Clyde
Winters Blizzards travel to Clyde for a non conference opener at 8 p.m. Friday as they begin a non district slate before 6-AA play. The Blue team, in first varsity action for many starters, faces a big Clyde squad in a scrimmage judged even last week. Coach Chili Black notes possible lineup changes and emphasizes a Wishbone offense with a Split-4 defense as he weighs early starters and the young squad’s test against Clyde’s depth and potential All-State lineman Johnny York and threat players Hurst Ramos and Tucker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Winters
Clyde
Kicoliff
Chili Black
Clyde Bulldogs
Bulldogs
Coleman
Blizzards
Black
Johnny York
Jarrell Hurst
Rueben Ramos
Hurst
Johnny Tucker
Bobby Evans
Keri Laughon Named 1973 West Texas Fair Sweetheart Contest
Keri Lynn Laughon daughter of Mr and Mrs Ray Laughon will represent the Winters FFA in the West Texas Fair Sweetheart contest. She is a Winters High junior active in the Blizzard Band Flag Corps flag staff student council and district FFA Sweetheart contestant. The parade starts September 8 at 10 am in downtown Abilene with a stage presentation at 5 pm and the winner announced September 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Keri Lynn Laughon
Ray Laughon
Future Farmers of America
Big Country
Abilene
Fairgrounds
Miss Laughan
Winters High School
Blizzard Band
FFA
Winters
Day Care Center Aide Resigns at Winters School
Mrs. Dottie Loudermilk, a teacher aide at the Winters Day Care Center, resigns after serving in 1972 73. The center seeks applications for another aide as enrollment sits below the 20 child maximum funded by Winters ISD and Central Texas Opportunities. Carroll Tatum notes ongoing recruitment for additional children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dottie Loudermilk
Winters
Winters Independent School District
Central Texas Opportunities, Inc
Carroll Tatum
Extra State Money Expands Boll Weevil Spraying Area
Extra state funds add four aerial sprayings in the Runnels area delaying the three flight plan. About 12 000 acres will be treated to target hot spots including Drasco Pumphrey Wingate and Miles regions as part of a three year diapause program led by C T Parker Jr and Bill Walker.
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Runnels Area
Boll Weevil Association
C. T. Parker Jr
Runnels County Extension
Runnels
Drasco-Pumphrey
Wingate
Afm
Miles
Parker
Bill, Walker
Rennels:Area
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Lk By &, C. Thomas
Wilmer
Tommy Russell
U. S
Jack Nicklaus
Bill Bean
CRNA
R. C. Thomas
Ira Afflerbach
Carlton Parks
Glenn Hoppe
C. T. Rives
Jim Shook RN
Shep
SMITH
Renzo Fenzo
Open Door
Fenzo
Lung Assn
Lions Club
David McAdoo
Ray Powers
Joe Ray DeLaCruz
Perry Poe
Lonnie Briley
Wyman Burson
Glenn Colburn
Benjie Alldredge
Stan Tatum
Rickey DeLaCruz
Mitch Davis
Johnny Ray Liggins
Kyle Tatum
Luther Smith
Jim West
Keri Laughon
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