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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1962
Page
6
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Winters High School hosts the Brady Bulldogs for a key home clash after two wins. Brady arrives with two losses and a balanced attack led by Charles Bradshaw and W L Mooring. Probable starters include Alfrey or Arroyo at QB, with Mitchell Hopper and Jackson anchoring both sides of the line.
Fragments indicate a local note about weekly West Wing activity with a mention of the 27th week. Readable details are limited but suggest ongoing schedule or events in the West Wing area. Further context is unclear from the fragment.
Stamford and Winters top district standings and receive statewide notice in two Grid Ranking columns. Hamlin Pipers climb to No 3 behind Stamford and Winters with a 2-0 start. Stamford 2-0 at 78-0, Winters 2-0 at 38-6. Upcoming Friday games include Albany at Anson and Hamlin at Spur.
A beet ball golf tournament was held by the country club on Sunday. Participants competed for prizes in a casual event described as a playful beet ball challenge.
A. R. Hodges of Dallas spoke at the Central and West Texas Photographers Society gathering hosted by the Eddie Littles. He demonstrated candid wedding photography techniques as Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Hill modeled. Print winners included Little for a F F A portrait, Ronnie Howard for three children, and Frank Homme for four teens. About 30 guests from Cisco, Breckenridge, Abilene, Big Spring, San Angelo, and Dallas attended.
Showers and dew saturated fields for days have kept the 1962 cotton crop harvest at a snail's pace. By Wednesday afternoon only 629 bales had been processed by Winters gins as farmers, pickers, and ginners await sun and warmth. There is fear that pickers may move to other areas if fields remain unready.
Mrs. E. E. Richardson of Ballinger has been hired on a temporary basis as a lab technician at Winters Municipal Hospital. She is a registered technician with training from Scott-White Hospital in Temple and has previously worked for C. T. Rives in Winters, at Ballinger Clinic, and at the San Angelo clinic.
F at State U Mrs 3. P Davidson aged her daughter Marta to Austin on Thursday. ise Davidson as a freshman at the University of Texas.
Explorer Post No. 49 was reactivated Tuesday night in the W. M. Hayes home with nine Scouts reorganizing and electing officers. Dick Young was elected president with Jimmy Burnett as vice president and Bob Jones as secretary. Planned activities include overnight campouts, a district round table in Winters October 2, a rifle meet October 14, a council camporee November 10-11, and a Spelunker trip to Sonora Caverns in December. All Explorer-age boys are urged to attend the next meeting on the second Tuesday in October.
Several Winters businessmen met Tuesday morning at Pierce's Cafeteria to discuss a Christmas program for this year. The meeting, held by the Winters Chamber of Commerce retail trades committee chaired by Harry London, reviewed several program phases. No definite plans were made. committee members will continue study and report later.
Mrs. Ira Brannon was called to Alice Monday by the serious illness of her nephew W. E. Seitt Jr. who was hurt in a car accident about two weeks ago.
The Type III Sabine polio program planned for September 28 and 30 has been postponed. Type I remains set for November 9 and 11, and Type II remains planned for January.
Herbert Martin Harrell, son of H. H. Bert Harrell, a Winters native now living in Orlando, will enter Johns Hopkins University pre medical program in Baltimore this month. He is nephew to Mrs. Ira Afflerbach and to Tom and Claude Harrell of Winters. The article also notes a temporary halt in Type III oral polio vaccine for adults due to reports of adult cases, while Types I and II continue for all ages, with school and preschool children and adults in epidemic areas still receiving Type III. Winters Lions Club sponsors the local immunization drive, which invites contributions but guarantees vaccine regardless of payment.
Danny, a Shetland stallion owned by John W. Norman of Winters, was named grand champion stallion and took first in model stallions as judges awarded the Shetland Pony Division at the West Texas Fair in Abilene. Norman also exhibited Dollie, a Winters Shetland mare, finishing second in model mare judging. Norman's Danny also topped the Stallion 1960 class.
Winters Post 9193 VFW and the Ladies Auxiliary will again sponsor an American Heritage program monthly at Winters Elementary School for the full school year. The first program titled We Believe in the Dignity and Freedom of the Individual emphasizes individual rights and freedom as the basis of all beliefs, according to VFW spokesmen.
Winters High School Future Farmers of America members led by Jeryl and Mike Priddy earned top awards in Abilene livestock events at the West Texas Fair. About 24 sheep 14 goats and 11 hogs were entered by Winters boys with Jeryl and Mike Priddy taking champion and reserve champion Dorset ram honors. John Jackson showed the champion Shwe aa kme aceon showed
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