Levelland and Hockley County News-Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 92, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 16, 1994 Page: 1 of 25
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SEPARATE INCIDENTS
lible well
service connections for pivot
breakfast
onto
with
Local post office
closed Monday
In observance of Residents Day
invited to the quarterly Levelland
Area Chamber of Commerce
breakfast at 6:30 ajn. Thursday in
the Hockley County Senior Citiz-
ens Center.
This is the chamber’s second
quarterly breakfast and will cost S3
^(Suestswill include John Hope’s
High School art students who are
meral soil moisture
should not be used in
Jaramillo
four of his friends were riding up
and down College Avenue when
they decided to pull over and park
installed," he explains. The cooper-
ative contracted with J&J Indust-
ries out of Portales in December
and went to the 65 hour work week
for its own crews in January as they
continued to look for another
contractor to help with the work
load. The first week of February
Graham Poleline, Ltd. out of
Graham went to work with the
cooperative.
• "We have cut the back log down
to where we’re six to eight weeks
behind right now," said McCam-
Country Market for $2,700. The
Reserve Champion lamb shown by
Steve Gamer of Levelland FFA
was purchased by United Super-
market for $1,700.
Mendy Parkinson of Levelland
4-H showed both the Grand and
Reserve Champion rabbit. The
Grand Ch
by Jimmy Crenshaw for $500*,
while the Reserve Champion was ____ „____
bought by the LongS Gin for $500 (Photo by Bobby Jones)
as well. See SALE Page 2
Demand for electric service
YOU’VE GOT TO BE KIDDING-Canadi an Geese on Lobo Lake pay little attention to the NO SWIMMING
sign that has been posted to keep people out of the water. Every year hundreds of geese move in on the city’s
handouts by citizens who take the time to feed the wild animals.
soil moisture readings indicate an
average of 0.20 inches per foot in
the top three feet, plant-available
soil moisture conditions across
the 15-country Water District
service area.
"Irrigators can use this infor-
mation to estimate the amount of
water needed to bring their soil to
field capacii
Soil Scientist.
Copies of the regional and/or
Hockley County soil moisture
survey maps are available by
contacting your local USDA-SCS
field office or the High Plains
Underground Water Conservation
District No. 1, 2930 Avenue Q,
Lubbock, Tx 79405-1499 or by
calling (806) 762-0181.
Hockley County producers
within the High Plains Under-
ground Water Conservation
District No.l need four to ten
inches of water from precipitation
and/or irrigation to bring the five
foot root zone soil profile to field
capacity before the 1994 spring
planting, according to pre-plaint
soil moisture survey date released field capacity without over-
by the Water District and the irrigation. Producers should
USDA-Soil Conservation Service remember that this information
(USDA-SCS). reflects
Soil moisture readings are trends i
the show, sold for $3,100 to the
Levelland Livestock Premium
Association. The Reserve Champi-
on steer shown by Amber Law-
rence, brought $1,800 to the girl
from Amon. It was purchased by
Amoco/Rinks.
The Grand Champion hog
shown by Kyle Pate of the Ropes
FFA brought in $2,100 at the
The hog was purch-
aluminum access tube at each Crenwelge, USDA SCS
monitoring site in the Water
District These sites are chosen
based upon the soil
variations in the saturai
ness of the Ogallala Aquifer
which indicates possible well
yields, and typical farming opera-
tions in the area.
Soil moisture sites were also
analyzed by crop type. For cotton.
He hopes that by ho
both sets of contracts
Lamb County’s own crews work-
ing at the same pace that they can
get caught up with all the new.
construction by the middle to end
of April.
Once they are caught up they
will be replacing poles damaged by
wind storms in December. Then
we’ll be able to concentrate on pole
replacement," he si
"If the weather
been, we’ll be in i
that grossed over $128,700 far
local 4-H and FFA members.
Over 300 students were in this
year’s show, and 233 animals made
the sale. "Except far some of the
rabbits, none of the animals sold
for less that $400," said publicity
Shooting, stabbing
being investigated
by Levelland police
Violent crime in Levelland is on and a van then pulled into the gas
the rise.
According to Levelland Chief of
Police Ted Holder, last year mark-
ed the first time in 15 years that the
City of Levelland had seen two
a like it has
good shape,
pretty soon," he, says, admitting
however that the area needs rain.
Rain and die accompanying mud
station and blocked in Jaramillo’s
vehicle where he could not leave.
Two men then got out of the car
and began shooting at them.
Jaramillo told police that he duck-
ed down in the car to avoid being
shot.
After
shots, the
Jaramillo got out of the car and
called police to report the incident.
There were no injuries.
A few minutes later two of the
suspects were apprehended, both
of which were juveniles.
According to the police report,
while one of the suspects was
being questioned at the Law
Enforcement Center he gave
several conflicting stories about
at the One Stop *66" gas station on what happened. Officers advised
the comer of College Avenue and him not to talk about the incident
Maple. until there was an attorney present
Three vehicles, a car, a pickup See CRIME Page 2
County farmers need
1992 to six in 1993.
So far this year there have been
.woaTOhomic^Uve..
Late Saturday night Michael
Jaramillo of 1504 Avenue F conta-
cted police io report that he had just
been shot at.
to the police report,
officers that he and
Lamb County Electric serves a
rural service area from Hart to
Levelland and from Roundup to
Sudan. It has approximately 8,000
meters on the system and 25,000
sq. miles of line.
The electric cooperative is using
two contractors and is working its
own crews six days, 65 hours, a
week, in an effort to meet this
recent demand for service.
He says it was in the mid-70s
that the cooperate last saw such a
demand for service. At that time
most of the demand was in the Hart
Camp and Olton area. Outside
contractors were used for 18
month* at that rime
McCamish says 80 percent of
the new work is associated with
new pivot systems. The coopera-
tive is finishing two to three differ-
ent jobs a day right now.
"We were running 10 to 12
weeks behind getting new service
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Levelland and Hockley County News-Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 92, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 16, 1994, newspaper, February 16, 1994; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1189387/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Plains College.