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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1967
Page
6
The country must boost education and training to fill future jobs as 2 million 16 to 21 year olds dropped out, with 18 percent unemployment among them. Emphasizes keeping youth in school, aiding dropouts to return, and supporting educators, noting recent gains and urging ongoing citizen effort.
Eddie Little of Winters learned his photograph won the best monochrome portrait of a woman at the state show after a long wait for evaluation. He entered prints from his San Antonio submission, facing delays due to a heart attack earlier in the year, and finally received the trophy along with his case of prints.
Winters Masonic Lodge along with Wingate Lodge 1042 and Norton Lodge 1070 will receive Honor Roll Awards for outstanding attendance in the spring Masonic workshop programs. The ceremony is Monday Sept 18 at 7 30 p.m. in the Norton Masonic Lodge. M V Baker of San Angelo will present the awards and preside. Preston Barker of Winters Lodge will accept for the local lodge. The workshop is part of a semi annual program for Texas Masonic Logos and the quarter million members.
Winters High School prepares for homecoming during the football game against Ballinger on Friday September 29 at 8 p m. Five members of the 1917 class are attending and ex students may visit the cafeteria meal 5 30 to 7 30 priced 1 25 adults 75 cents children. A halftime crowning of the homecoming queen Gayland Robinson will occur with officers present and a post game reception served by John Gardner Bill Robinson and Dennis Poe.
Numerous Winters students plan to attend colleges and universities in Texas and beyond this year. The list names enrollees at UT Austin Texas Tech North Texas State Sam Houston State Rice and others with many more to be added or corrected by readers of The Enterprise.
The Winters Boosters meet at City Hall Monday night at 8 with Hal Dry as president. All members and others interested in boosting the Winters schools athletic department are invited. A film of the Winters Lake View football game will be shown.
Winters letter carriers will start delivery of 2000 Zip A List kits to every household on Sept 18. Postmaster Rankin Pace urged residents to use the postal cards to obtain ZIP Codes for addresses in mailing lists. Each home receives eight cards for ZIP coding and return addresses with no postage needed. The project supports the Postmaster General Lawrence F. O Brien's program to make ZIP Codes more accessible to the public.
Clifford L. Lewis son of Mr and Mrs Albert L Lewis Route 4 Winters has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U S Air Force after completing Officers Training School at Lackland AFB Texas He will train at Chanute AFB Illinois as a missile launch officer A 1962 Winters High School graduate he earned a 1967 BBA from Hardin Sim mons University and studied at Abilene Christian College He is a member of Alpha Kappa Psi His wife Avie is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Virgil Justice of Hereford.
Roscoe Morrison of Wilmeth delivered the first bale of the 1967 crop to the Wingate Gin on Tuesday. The hand picked bale weighed 2000 pounds and measured .468 bale. Morrison said two more bales were open and he farms 300 acres in cotton. He reported boll weevils are bad and boll worms not yet troubled. three poisonings occurred. The bale was brought to Winters Warehouse Co.
Postmaster Rankin Pace announced rural mail carriers began distributing 1967 Acreage Survey Cards on Sept 14. The U S Department of Agriculture and the Post Office Department conduct the annual survey to estimate Texas crop acreage for 1967. Carriers Weldon Collins Eddie Little Donald Kruse and William S Cooke collect completed cards.
The Winters High School team opens against Anson, a strong 5-A A opponent, with a forecasted 8:00 PM Friday kickoff. The 1967 squad, described as young, aims to show improvement after a Lake View encounter with added finesse and rough spots cleaned up.
The Elm Creek Water Control District board will be organized at Winters City Hall on Tuesday Sept 19 at 7 30 p m. W M Hays heads the steering committee and the initial directors include Virgil James J E Buck Smith Walter Spill Richard C Thomas John Purifoy and Charles Hambrick. The district aims to study watershed needs with a field exam by the Texas State Soil and Water Conservation Board and SCS and may seek federal aid for flood control structures.
Runnels County Archery Association one of Texas youngest clubs earned three trophies at the 18th Texas Field Archery Tournament held September 2 and 3 at Camp Tonkawa. Eight RCAA archers competed in multiple classes, with Don Vinson and Tommy Chambliss earning 20 pin awards for perfect targets.
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