Levelland and Hockley County News-Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 15, 2005 Page: 1 of 10
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OME ON LEAVE - U.S. Army Sgt Geronimo Salinas Jr is pictured with his mother, Juanita Salinas,
their Levelland home. Salinas, an artilleryman, finished a two-week leave this week before returning
to duty in Iraq. He has been serving there for 10 months. (Staff Photo)
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It will be a day of fun, food
to both Washington, D.C. and
Atlanta, Ga., said travel is one of
Amber Parkinson, 4-H agent
with the Texas Cooperative
Extension Service in Levelland,
said that local students fared well
“We’ve got lots of money
involved in Hockley County,” he
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things about 4-H is you get to tra-
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Cut optic line
severs phone
service in area
Telephone service for thou-
sands of customers was knocked
out Monday afternoon when a
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grams of cocaine. The drugs had a
street value of $5,700:
Officers also found more than
“We did infantry-based stuff,
patrolling outside the wire and
sweeping the road,” he said.
The soldiers had to check the
roads outside their forward
operating base to ensure they had
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possession.
“It was a pretty good bust,”
said Police Chief Toney Cowan.
Bautista’s arrest stemmed
also have a chance to win special
door prizes.
A large blowup jumping celebration is welcome,
machine will be provided for
2" LJ. Powell asked if he could
This year’s celebration is draft a letter to Congress, asking
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funding for the block grant
Juneteenth marks the date in programs.
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member of the Juneteenth arrived in Texas with the official said the Court would join ranks
dealer, seize drugs, cash
A Levelland man was busted warrant and were going to baggies, a report said.
; Lawmen went to Bautista’s
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or meth, during the bust.
seeing the majority of people are
pretty poor. It's nice to see people
getting along and civilization.”
“Hockley County was very
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said.
Daniel Albus, who has
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The people are really nice
because
The brigade was deployed to
Habbaniyah, west of
155mm howitzer. fire support for American units
He was sent to South Korea that might be 15 or more miles
and joined the Second Infantry away.
Salinas wasn’t thinking about Division. Stationed 20 miles .......
the Army when he graduated from south of the Demilitarized Zone, to load powder in the breech of
Levelland High School in 2001. he said the 20 months he spent the howitzer and verify where
He attended South Plains there were a good duty tour.
College and was working as a
stance in a drug-free zone. pressure sprayer he was hold- A search of the residence |
Municipal Judge Norma ing. One of the lawmen grabbed also revealed a coffee cannister p
Garza set bonds totaling $100,000. Bautista and walked him to
CAMPUS IMPROVEMENT - Miguel Vega used this trenching machine Tuesday to dig up dirt so that
he and Kevin Nowell (not seen) could put in an irrigation system on the SPC campus. The two men are
putting in more than 12,000 feet of irrigation pipe on a field south of the Smallwood Apartments. The
project will keep the seven-acre field nice and green. Students often use it for impromptu football games
and other sports. (Staff Photo)
Soldier on leave reflects
on ongoing struggle in Iraq
The 10 months that Geronimo always wanted to be part of a Middle East, and Salinas and his
Salinas Jr. served with the U.S. crew because I was thinking of fellow soldiers flew to Kuwait in
long days interspersed with ex-
citement and tension.
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rounds land.
Two months later, his battal-
secunty guard in Lubbock when The people are really nice ion moved to Al-Ramadi. The
he decided to join the Army. because they have an apprecia- Americans took over a former
“The Army recruiter came tion for what the United States Iraqi army base and refurbished
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The duty tour at Al-Ramadi
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was lost around 1:30
p.m., according to police. FLYING OLD GLORY-Tuesday was Flag Day and Dr. Wilburn Deel was one of several Kiwanis Club
Partial phone service was members who placed American flags around Levelland early in the morning. He put flags at the entrance
restored in Levelland after 4 p.m. °f South Plains College. The Levelland Kiwanis Club has been placing flags around the community on
Monday. patriotic days as a fund-raiser for the past several years. Deel has been a member of the local Kiwanis Club
------------------------------- for 40 years and has helped put out and take in the flags ever since the project began. He was at sted by
his son-in-law, Richard Winegar, who is not a member of the Kiwanis but who volunteered to help. (Staff
Photo)
County agrees to protest
proposed funding cuts
County commissioners Mon- munity Services Block Grant County.
day heard a plea for support to programs by President Bush “We’ve got lots of money
protest proposed cuts in a would hurt local communities.
federally-funded program. In an overview, Powell said told commissioners.
Bill Powell Jr., executive the organization provided about fcwaU md ih agency
director of South Plains Commu- $4.4 million in services to low- transportation arm provided about
nity Action Association, said the income, elderly and children in 32,000 round-trips for clients to
proposed elimination of Com- the past fiscal year in Hockley and from Hockley County in the
Juneteenth celebration
planned Saturday in park
The annual Juneteenth cel- younger children, as well as
ebration in Levelland will be games. There will also be a
past year. Most of those trips
were to Lubbock, with many of
them being for healthcare visits.
SPCAA employs between
800 and 900 people, including
425 full-time workers, in a multi-
^0 held Saturday afternoon on the basketball tournament and tro- county area.
phies will be awarded. Powell asked if he could
___ This year’s celebration is draft a letter to Congress, asking
and games, with the festivities being hosted by Monarch Marble its members to support continued
kicking off at 1:30 p.m. Co. and owner Willie B. Jones. funding for the block grant
“Just come out and enjoy the
said Glenda Moore,
* a that contained a small spoon and
Police seized 29.07 grams of patrol car and handcuffed him. two baggies. Two plastic baggies
or meth, during the bust. Officers noticed a small bag with their comers cut off were
Officers also recovered 28.54 that looked like a shaving kit found on a cabinet shelf, and
bag inside the defendant’s Ford officers also found a plastic bag
Mustang on the floorboard. containing drug residue inside a
A K-9 dog handled by shoe between a sofa and a piano.
$4,000 in cash in Bautista’s Sheriff’s Deputy Gordon Bautista was suspected of
Bohannon responded to the dealing drugs from his home,
scene and the animal alerted to said Detective Joe Orozco.
the bag. Police are not sure where the
The brown bag contained narcotics originated.
from an ongoing investigation $4,092 in cash and a rock-like
into suspected drug dealing on his substance believed to be meth. It
part. also contained the cocaine, a
Based op information re- package of marijuana, digital
ceived, police obtained a search scales and labeled plastic
Concert scheuled Thursday
Champion yodeler Tania during the evening. ,
Moody and other artists will take Singer and picker Loa Fair, fiber optic line was cut in
the stage Thursday night when the as well as Don Foard, will also Lubbock County.
third weekly “Sounds of Texas” is entertain. The outage affected phone
held in Levelland. The weekly show will end service in Anton, Levelland,
The show will get under way at about 9 p.m.
at 7:30 p.m. at the gazebo in Those attending the com-
downtown Levelland. munity production are encour-
Vocalist Tanner Saunders aged to bring lawn chairs or
will also sing during the evening, blankets to sit on.
as will an out-of-town visitor. Two more shows will be
Sarah Osburn, who is from held this month - on June 23 and
the Dallas area, will take the stage 30.
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A Levelland man was busted ’
Saturday night after authorities Bautista’s Hicks Street home
found more than two ounces of when they spotted him washing home and found a camera system
methamphetamine and cocaine in a car at a car wash on College inside. The camera was on and
his possession. Avenue. working when officers entered
Albert Bautista Jr., 33, was Two officers, their weapons the residence. They noticed that
arraigned on two charges of ready, walked up behind Bautista the camera faced the comer of
possession of a controlled sub- and advised him to drop a high- Hicks and Denver Avenue.
pressure sprayer he was hold-
through and I liked what he had to did I°r them in the Korean
offer, Salinas said. “I would be War,” he said, adding
able to choose” a specialty. younger Koreans do not
His first two choices didn’t appreciate the Americans as
I unit got a was much' more varied for
notified that Salinas and his comrades.
but0 was told there were no a brigade would be deployed to
openings. He was also surprised
when he learned that he couldn't
go into the infantry.
them I didn’t want to be sitting
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Army in Iraq were ones filled with the camaraderie.” August 2004. The soldiers trained
Salinas was approved for for two weeks in Kuwait and
the artillery -13 Bravo - and he adjusted to its climate. His
The son of Geronimo and enlisted for a four-year period, brigade then moved into Iraq,
Juanita Salinas Jr. of Levelland He entered the service in May with half of the soldiers going in
says the contrast between the 2002 and took basic training at by convoy.
United States and Iraq is startling. Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He then
“It’s kind of shocking, I trained as a member of a four- the city of 1
guess,” he said. “You're used to man crew on a self-propelled Baghdad. His battalion provided
pan out, though.
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to go into the combat engineers jolt when they were
Iraq.
“It hadn’t happened in 50
, yean,” he said. “It came down
“I thought that was odd. I told as kind of a shock.”
; 1 ‘ ‘ ’“’ J His unit prepared its equip-
behind a desk,” he said. I had ment for shipment by sea to the
festivities,
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Committee. news that the Civil War was over and s*8n. thejetter to Congress.
Hot dogs and hamburgers and all of the slaves had been
with all the trimmings will be freed.
served. Donations will be ac- Donations may be made to
cepted and proceeds will go the Juneteenth Committee rnern-
toward the L.G. Griffin scholar- bers. They include Mrs. Moore, *n the recent State 4-H Round-up.
ship, which is awarded each May Debra Franklin, Mylinda Graves,
to a graduating student. Dale Golightly, Viver Loving, represented,
Door prizes will be given Charlene Smith, Ruby Brackens ““J
away during the afternoon, and Mary Leaks.
which will include a 27-inch For more information on the represented local 4-H’ers in trips
color TV, DVD player and cash basketball tournament, contact
certificates. Senior citizens will Willie B. Jones at 548-4252.
Anyone who would like to the great benefits of being tn 4-H.
volunteer to help out during the
1865 when a U.S. Army General
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Rigg, John. Levelland and Hockley County News-Press (Levelland, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 21, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 15, 2005, newspaper, June 15, 2005; Levelland, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1253668/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting South Plains College.