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r mm ww 12 PAGES 10 CENTS STRYCHNINE! gmimmwffl ft 444444 '444444 45 Years Old - - And New Twice Every Week bME 45 LITTLEFIELD, LAMB COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1969 NUMBER 58 Parents POISONED PUP of Judd KIM COMPANY INVESTS S150.000 Walker's stands on the left with Concerned male Basenji and Kathy. The poisoning death of a young picked up a poisoned piece of meat puppy in Littlefield has caused and put it back down without getting concern among some parents and the meat in his mouth, but later put authorities of the city. his contaminated hand in his mouth''" An expensive Basenji female owned He explained that the child would Tower by Judd Walker, 112 E. 20th, ate some become "very nervous", and would Tops strychnine-treate- Skyline meat suffer severe nervous slight Wednesday tremors at morning of last week, and died as a noises and surprises. a ieu-ioo- i at General instruction oi Telephone Company's have something to do with cable TV, understanding that the tower for result. If ... linvn tViir lipnnb that "i-t- Llttlefleld offices. IjJVC lOWer lll'ie una on which General has the franchise. will be located somewhere south of Walker admitted he cared very Lj the start ot a &iou,uuu The tower, to be "1 topped by don't know the status on cable town, out near the old drive-i- n much about the loss of the pup, but circular-shape- theatre, bment program now in progress d transceiver 12 feet in TV here," Kehoe said, "but It is my when it is put up." that he was much more concerned diameter, is under construction behind about the possibility of a young child Your Car General's dial office at 5th and getting into the same poison. m rm-- s TmTmmmmammim'm'm HHSSiQ Twitchell. The November-bor- n dog, bought by Total cost of the improvements will Walker for $150 to mate with a Among Half be $149,981, according to Jerry Basenji male he already owned, was Kehoe, district manager of the out of the yard for a short while that company. morning. It was observed having Not Inspected? The tower itself is an Item of about convulsions shortly before noon. $20,000 in cost, Kehoe said, with the Walker took the dog to a "With the April 15 deadline for main portion of the expense attributed veterinarian in Muleshoe immediately. obtaining inspection stickers drawing to complex radio equipment being It lived into the night, but finally died. near, only 53 per cent of the installed at the office and atop the The Muleshoe vet confirmed the type registered vehicles in Lamb County tower. of poison and said it had probably have been inspected," stated Captain The project is designed to give the been taken with stew meat. Alan Johnson. Motor Vehicle Littlefield exchange a "better, more Police Chief F. A. Fitzgerald told Inspection Supervisor of the Texas e method of handling long the Leader-New- s he had received no Department of Public Safety. distance calls," Kehoe explained. other complaints of poisonings "Unless there is a rapid increase of He said the company's target date recently. But he said if he could find inspections, long waiting lines will be for having the microwave facilities in who set out the poison, he would stop forming at inspection stations as the operation here is May 1. it. April 15 deadline approaches. The At present all incoming and It is against the law to purchase authorized inspection stations are outgoing long distance calls involving strychnine for the purpose of ready and capable of handling the Littlefield and other communities in poisoning animals. The purchaser must inspection of Texas registered vehicles the local exchange are carried over sign an account sheet upon receipt of if owners will not wait until a few K standard telephone lines. the poison. days before the deadline," Johnson After the microwave system is One local pharmacist said he was added. 8M Installed, calls will go "through the air very much against the using of "Any driver operating a vehicle on on microwaves," Kehoe said. strychnine in killing animals. "It's a public roads after April 15 that is Microwave towers are already horrible way to die. There's nothing in required to be inspected will be installed at Levelland, Brownfleld, the world bad enough to deserve operating in violation of the law," Wolforth, Lubbock and other points in poisoning by strychnine." Johnson said. the West Texas-Ne- Mexico area of He explained the poison reacted on Captain Johnson called attention the General system. the muscles, causing convulsions. Only to the fact that since the beginning of The new Littlefield tower If the convulsions can be arrested, can the inspection program in 1951. apparently will be the tallest structure the recipient be saved. vehicles having a defect that ,was a LCft ;.i the Immcdlcte area. The 12 foot j ) The pharmacist was askprf, "What causative factor in fatal acefdents WORD'S VlEW'bf diameter transceiver will be situated EYE city's tallest structure. would happen to a child that only decreased from 13 to 3. vertically atop a 169-foo- t tower, bringing the total height to 181 feet. FOOT TOWER goes up back The microwave system "will give us SHE HEARD FROM CZECHOSLOVAKIA Jineral Telephone Dial Office more certain service," Kehoe said. I'Jiind Twitchell. He said the local office no longer Where will have the problem of Ice on telephone lines In cold weather, which results in distortion of conversation and even more serious troubles at Do We Go Letter From Old Country EATHER times. "We've even had trouble from heavy trucks garbling telephone line By NILAH RODGERS her cousin and his wife and children studied some English and could read H L communication," Kehoe said, "and From Here? Leader-New- s PRIL Staff Writer was enclosed. that, too." 2 71 47 we've even lost telephone wire to PRIL They told about their family, 3 69 45 thieves in the past." Frank Vrubel, the father of Mrs. PRIL Citizens interested In the "We got your letter and pictures in saying that there was plenty of work 4 75 Rosle Vasek of Littlefield and John 42 The district manager said he had growth and development of good shape," Mrs. Vasek translated. and that all was well. "We would like PRIL 5 76 Vrubel of Spade, used to grieve for his 40 received many inquiries about the new Littlefield are urged to (They didn't say whether the letter to come to your country, but that is WML 6 80 52 tower since construction started Czechoslovakian family and wish he 'PRIL attend a brainstorming had been censored.) They said they not possible." 7 85 45 Tuesday, including some from people could hear from them. PRIL session Monday, April 14, at waited to write because they had "It made me so very happy to hear 8 "Even years before his Mrs. 82 44 who thought the new tower might 7:30 p.m. in the District death," pictures made. "We could read your from them," Mrs. Vasek said. Vasek said, "he would wish he would Courtroom of the Lamb Czech just fine, and our daughter has See LETTER Page 1 1 County Courthouse. hear from his brother and sister and family he left in the old country In eep Mayor J. E. Chisholm and 1906". Flips, Kills Boy, 9, Chamber of Commerce Frank Vrubel's brother, Rudolph, President John Clayton will promised him when he got old enough s preside for the decision- to travel alone that he would come to Family Looks On making meeting. America. Rudolph Vrubel fulfilled this City Manager Jim Shearer promise In 1913. Even with his 1!ral brother here, Frank longed to see his servirpc fnr tdn ....rt ,., members of the family were watching will again present Ideas in 'wiser family so that he often resident, killed FriHa. in a as the accident took place. promoting new industry for dreamed of meeting his family In Czechoslovakia accident before the eyes of his Littlefield and the County, v.- - atop again. neia Sunday In Ennis. The vehicle rolled over the as he has at several other Walker's But by this time the communists ; rites were held for boy and crushed him. Judd meetings in the city. JEM Ola Bennlo Wallm c., f daughter, Kathy, 12, was also pinned had taken over Czechoslovakia and the Mrs. All citizens, all civic elder Vrubel would say: "But I 'j Bobby Walker of Ennis. under the vehicle. Connie Cannon, also don't Avinel organizations, school board know whether they still live where . 12, daughter of Mrs. Cannon, hkkkkH t vkHkkkkkkkkw wVH l, " uuu ttirs. dud they used to, I kkkkM;' atkHeakWrc. afjH ' h0 moved hnrn was thrown clear. members, county and don't know what II frnm in i A government representatives, to say. If I said the wrong thing, it kLLLHkw iaafiLiu 'dkLLLMMt tUkH and he is .ielLiLiLw '" rnik1949'. nephew of Two men watching, ran to the chamber of commerce, city might get them In trouble. iiiBLiflnkmi' aH vehicle and lifted it off the youths, but ident, which council and local Mrs. Vasek said she thought her dad BkWLHLiBffi' took the life of it was too late to save the boy's life. iKB 8er, took businessmen are urged to wrote some but never JH letters, mailed 'I place about 2:30 Parents of the boy were not "uy on thn nnu .1 attend and present ideas. them. "You've got to have an address present.