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VOLUME NINE
NUMBER 73
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Levelland, Teles 79336 Sunday, November 29,1967
26 PAGES IN TWO SECTIONS AND SUPPLEMENTS
O'Connor issues challenge to repair city streets
Petition circulating
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for bond election
Former city councilman
Lynn O’Connor turned the ta-
bles on the city Tuesday and
used a city-sponsored planning
meeting to launch a petition
drive which could result in a
bond election to fix city streets.
The meeting had been called
to provide an update to commu-
nity leaders about what the city
has accomplished in the past 18
months and to gain insight as to
what residents feel should be
priorities in the future.
O’Connor seized that oppor-
tunity and challenged the group
of about 30 people to help him
circulate a petition to get the
streets fixed. “We have a huge
investment in existing streets
and we’re just letting them fall
into ruin. It’s about like buying
a new car and letting it ruin
because you don’t get the oil
changed. It doesn’t make sense
to let this happen. We’ve been
putting it off and putting it off
and the problem just gets worse
and worse. We need a bond
election to fix them and put us in
a position to keep them up,”
said the former councilman.
He asked those in attend-
ance to take copies of the
petition he had prepared and to
get signatures. “It affects all of
us,’’ he stressed.
The petition reads: “We, the
undersigned residents of the
City of Levelland, seeing and
understanding the need for the
City of Levelland to improve,
upgrade and reconstruct many
of our existing streets, and of
the need to construct new
See PETmON Page 2
FEATHERED ENTERTAINMENT--Lois Clewis found an easy
way of entertaining four boys Friday afternoon by driving them to
Lobo Lake. Ducks crowded around the car, begging for more bits
of bread, once
sometimes throv
and Joshua and Je
Talking back to the ducks, and
Mitchell, Derek Jefferson,
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Anglin banks on dog's sniffing
County Commissioner Sam
Langford has announced he will
be seeking re-election"to his off-
ice, subject to the Democratic
primary.
Langford is commissioner of
Precinct No. 1. ‘
“I really feel like I’ve done a
By ANITA GLENN $3,800 drug sniffing dog named
Texas Tech Intern Odie.
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PRECINCT NO. f ELECTION
Commissioner Langford
asks for voters' support
conscientious, sincere and hon-
est job. I have served the people
in the way they deserve to be
served and I ask people to sup-
port me again,” said Langford.
* ‘I feel like I can and will contin-
ue to do the job that is needed to
be done.”
A native of Hockley County,
Langford says the economy pre-
sents the greatest challenge to
the commissioners court. “Our
problem is to make our govern-
ment money go as far as it can
go in the face of the economy.
“My attitude toward govern-
ment is that I’m a servant of the
people. I want to do what
they want done.” said the com-
missioner.
He is a deacon in the Fifth
Street Baptist Church and a Ma-
son. His wife, Flo, works for the
Hockley County Appraisal Dis-
trict. They have two grown sons,
Eddie, who lives here in Level-
land and David, who lives in
SAM LANGFORD Sundown.
Sheriff Leroy Schulle
to seek re-election
Sheriff Leroy Schulle has an- program since it started. The
nounced he will be seeking a sheriffs department now has
fourth term as county sheriff See SCHULLE Page 2
subject to the Democratic pri-
mary.
“I will continue to give the
county an honest, working sher-
iff’s department,” said Schulle.
“I waking for the voters’
continued support.”
Schulle paid when he first
ran for county sheriff he prom-
ised voters four things: that he
would implement a reserve pro-
gram, put officers in uniforms,
provide vacation checks of
homes and give the county a
working sheriff’s department.
“I’ve done everything I promis-
ed them I’d do and I’m proud of
it.”
The sheriff’s reserve pro-
gram is 10 years old and has
over a dozen participants, sever-
al whom have been a part of the lypryv sthiih R
and owner of Baldy Cop
gations, which is ct
Lug established in
Anglin expects to reeeiv
private investigator’s license
soon.
“It started out with trying to
see if there was a market for a
drug dog in the schools, then
one thing led to another and I
talked to several people in the
oil field. They’re interested in a
drug dog on the oil rigs,” said
Anglin. “We have a drug prob-
lem in Levelland
Odie comes from Rudy Plex-
ar’s School for Dogs in Indiana,
which is tfye best known dog
training facility in law enforce-
ment. She had gone through a
three month program for drug
detection.
The two-year-old dog was
trained to find drugs with a bag
filled with marijuana, pseudo-
heroin, or pseudo-cocaine. By
using these pseudo drugs, she
can not only find natural drugs,
but also man-made drugs.
“A dog’s nose is approxi-
mately 10 to 20 times more sen-
sitive than a person’s nose,”
said Anglin.
Anglin also went through a
training program. He has 40
hours in training and handling
the dog. He has also been with
the Levelland Police Depart-
ment for over two years. Prior to
that, he worked with the New
Mexico State Forestry as a pilot.
Anglin expects to recover his
investment in the first year of
being in business. Baldy Cop
Investigations will not only do
drug work, it will also provide
private security and private in-
vestigations.
“I feel like there is a market
for these services, ’ ’ said Anglin.
Baldy Cop will also offer a
package deal to oil
shepherd. Schutzhund has three
levels of training ranging from
JeaeT one, the most elementary,
to level three, the most aavanc-
ed.
Patrol dogs can help not only
with drug searches, but also
with tracking burglars and find-
ing lost children.
“I can think of six burglaries
off the bat where a dog may
have been able to help in the
apprehension of the offender,”
said Anglin.
A patrol dog goes through
two years of training.
‘ ‘They cover everything
from handler protection to basic
obedience,” said Anglin.
Anglin chose the passive
drug dog as his first dog be-
cause his primary market will be
the public schools.
News-Press
welcomes
Santa letters
With Thanksgiving behind
us, thoughts are turning to
Christmas and the shopping
lists that fill the days between
the two holidays.
Children are also turning to
lists in their letters to Santa.
The News-Press is now accept-
ing Santa letters and will pub-
lish them in our annual Christ-
mas edition Dec. 23.
We request that the length
of the letters be 100 words or
less and that they be from
elementary - aged children or
younger children.
The letters may be mailed to
the News-Press at P.O. Box
1628, Levelland, TX 79336, or
they may be delivered to Santa’s
mail box in the reception area of
the News-Press office at 711
Austin St.
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that includes urinalysis testing.
Anglin treats his $3,800 dog
with extra care. He works her to
find drugs for 16 minutes to an |9 ■
hour a day and is careful when C4- |V||f 1/
he exercises her. She is insured *Jle I
for $7,600, so if Odie is killed, •
Anglin can replace her with two yiClt
“Once she starts working in _ a a ■
drugs, someone will say, ‘Well, I Ol/Ollflflfj
we’ll kill this dog’,” said Ang- ¥ C,,UI IU
lin.
Anglin hopes to soon get a
drug and patrol dog. “I would
rather have a dog than a gun,”
said Anglin
A drug and patrol dog is
trained to be aggressive on com-
mand. It is trained with the
Schutzhund method, which orig-
inated in Germany. All of Rudy
Plexar’s patrol dogs are German
Santa Claus will be at San-
ta’s house on the courthouse
square from 6 to 9 p.m. Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday
nights.
The jolly old elf will be hear-
ing area kids Christinas wishes
the next three weekends. His
appearance and the Holiday
Wonderland are made possible
by Levelland’s Noon Lions.
59,571 BALES COMPLETED
Cotton ginning whirls,
stripping remains spotty
Cotton ginning is fully un- ther would bring delays result-
derway in the county, but ingin reduced yield due to time,
stripping is spotty, according to Also the rain splashing the soil
County Agent J3iUy Warrick,. onto the cotton melts the soil
“Instead of it (the cotton) into the lint fibers and that
being ready to strip, the smaller reduces the grade and the
bolls aren’t dying. For some income per acre. You want to
reason, the moisture leaving have it in properly-made mod-
these bolls is slow. If the ules and tarpedbefore it rains,”
farmers didn’t kill the crops Warrick said,
early* they ar»<hevtng to strip a —- National Weather fVwecastor
little at one farm and go to Leo Thurmond said Friday that
another and strip a little there, dry weather is expected for
They can’t strip a whole farm at several days,
once,” Warrick said. “If you get more than five
Even with the delay some days ahead, you might as well
farmers are facing in getting the go to a Farmer’s Almanac. They
cotton out of the field, they are are not that far off. In fact, we
stripping at a faster rate than have to struggle to beat them,
the gins can process the cotton. We can expect temperatures in
All of the county gins are now the lower 20s at night and in the
working night shifts and have low to mid 50s in the days. We
ginned 59,571 bales, roughly don’t expect anything (storms)
one-quarter of the expected until Wednesday or Thursday,”
harvest. ' Thurmond said.
“Two weeks of open weather Of the snowy weather pre-
and this crop would be strip- dieted for the area on Friday,
ped,” Warrick said. “Wet wea- See WEATHER Page 2
DRUG SNIFFING DOG -Levelland police officer Steve Anglin has
great hopes for his drug sniffing dog, Odie. He is in the process of
forming his own company to make use of the dog’s talents. Hate
the dog scratches at a spot under a fender where a quantity of
pseudo-drugs had been stashed. The $3,800 dog is trained daily.
(Staff Photo)
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Levelland and Hockley County News-Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 73, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 29, 1987, newspaper, November 29, 1987; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1147181/m1/1/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting South Plains College.