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Dear Editor:It was with some sadness that I read the story on the closing of radio station KPET in Lamesa. That little place up on the hill plays a major role in my childhood memories prior to my father leaving the radio business for the newspaper business in 1967. The newspaper provided a better living, but for a 10-year-old kid, there was nothing as exciting as radio.My dad, Walter Buckel, was the station manager and “signed on” many Saturday mornings with the sports review. I can still hear the jingle and marvel at his “radio voice” when he went on ...

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Lamesa Press-Reporter

P.O. Box 710
Lamesa, TX 79331
806-872-2177