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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1968
Page
5
The 1968 WHS Blizzard grid team leaves by chartered bus at 2 30 Friday for the Winters Sonora game. A big pep rally and early dismissal are planned to boost crowd support for the visitors in a strong Class A showdown.
Tommy Young son of Mr and Mrs Roy E Young is among 200 graduates at Abilene Christian College finishing the summer semester. He earned a Bachelor of Science in accounting and was a three year letterman who made All Southwestern Conference in his junior year.
Mr and Mrs Bill Milliorn spent the past weekend in San Antonio visiting in the home of their daughter Mrs Bob McClelland and daughter Debra.
Marine Private Felix Segura 20 from Wingate graduated after eight weeks of recruit training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot. He will undergo two to four weeks of individual combat training then return home briefly before reporting to his first Marine assignment.
Congressman Omar Burleson announced a visit by the Atomic Energy Commission lecture unit This Atomic World to Winters High School on Thursday October 24 The 40 minute program covers basic nuclear physics radioactivity reactors isotopes and their peace uses with student demonstrations The AEC program is provided free of charge schedules arranged with Oak Ridge Associated Universities and Winters officials are praised for securing up to date nuclear science information for students
The Runnels Baptist Youth Association will hold its monthly rally at First Baptist Church in Miles on September 14 at 7 30 p m. The program will feature the Christian Folk musical Good Bye performed by the Youth Choir of Winters under the direction of Tommy Seymour associational minister of youth.
In a brief session, Pe Ruber elects Hodnett and Eloise Prine to officer roles. The informal gathering named officers and set agenda items for upcoming community duties.
Runnels County School Board postponed action on petitions to detach 28.63 square miles from the Norton District to Winters and 16.4 square miles to Bronte. The board cited state law on detachment ratios and noted Ballinger annexation and an August 13 agreement influencing potential detachment and asset sharing. Norton Rural High School operates an eighth grade at Norton with 39 students.
Unclear readable text mentions John Martinez family and a teen, with scattered references to San Francisco and vegetable fields. No coherent event or outcome emerges from the fragment.
Two Texas Historical Markers will be dedicated Sunday September 15 at 3 p m in the District courtroom Ballinger. The markers honor San Clemente Mission and the Pickettville townsite with remarks by State Senator David Ratliff and others. The event includes ribbon cuttings and visits to the marker sites south and east of Ballinger along Highway 83.
Mr and Mrs Joe Kozelsky announce the birth of their son Timothy Wayne on August 24 Mother and father are residents of Texas City. Maternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs Andrew Wilde of Rowena paternal grandparents are Mr and Mrs Joe Kozelsky Sr of Winters and Mr and Mrs Joe Kozelsky of Winters The Kozelskys and their family visited in Texas City over the past weekend Joe Kozelsky Sr has completed sparendeenn din and will attend an undertaking in Houston.
Landa Walker of the Wingate 4-H Club won first place in the junior division at the county dress revue. Her dress earned her a chance to represent Runnels County in the District VII Dress Revue at the Cactus Hotel in San Angelo where she received a red ribbon. Seventeen counties entered District VII. Walker has been a 4-H member six years and has entered five years, earning blue ribbons at county level each year. Ruth O Conner of the Ballinger 4 H club represented Runnels County in the senior division at District VII Dress Revue and won a red ribbon.
General Telephone Company announces renaming information service to Directory Assistance to better describe its function for locating numbers in the current directory. San Angelo operators handle local numbers in Ballinger Barnhart Big Lake Bradshaw Bronte Carlsbad Christoval Crews Eden Eldorado Eola Mertzon Miles Ozona Paint Rock Robert Lee Rowena Sonora Sterling City Talpa Water Valley Wingate and Winters.
Captains lead the Winters team in a Tuesday game with strong play evident. Key players showcased leadership and scoring as the home squad secured a decisive win over their rivals.
Winters High School prepares for a 125 mile trip to Sonora Friday night in a season opener against a strong Sonora squad. Coach Jerry Gibson says the team is loaded for bear and aims to prove their potential in this non district test. Ticketing is at the gate in Sonora only.
Earl Palmer regional director of the Texas Heart Association will visit Winters on September 19 at 2 30 p m at the Huffman House to meet locals about forming a Winters chapter The event follows seven years of fundraising for the Heart Fund led by Mrs W L Collins Joe Stevens John Gardner and Mrs W W Wheat of Wingate The meeting aims to decide on organizing the Heart Association and to elect a president vice president secretary treasurer and a board of directors attendees invited
Winters Troop 49 will depart the Scout Hut at 5 p.m. Friday for the Winters Sonora football game. They stay overnight and tour Sonora Caverns Saturday, returning to Winters Saturday afternoon. Adult leaders include Jim Colishaw, Robert Carey, and David Kraatz. Scouts supply camping gear. food will be purchased.
Applications for the Navy twenty third annual Regular NROTC qualification test are available via Mrs Lee Harrison at Winters High School. The nationwide exam on December 14 targets male seniors and graduates 17 to 20 years old on June 30 1969. Qualified entrants face interviews medicals and likely placement as midshipmen at 53 colleges with four years of financial aid including tuition fees books uniforms and a 40 dollar monthly subsistence allowance.
The Winters Chamber of Commerce board approved a 12:45 p.m. luncheon for all members on Monday September 23 inviting full attendance. In other action the board voted to pay a 50 dollar premium for the first bale of 1968 cotton to be ginned at the Winters gin from a local farmer in the Winters area.
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