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Allen, a 1958 L i n c o 11High School graduateranked number one out of 16’candidates competing f o i nine vacancies on the south era California department.Meeting Allen on the West )ast will be a third member of the clan, Allen’s cousin Harland Huppert, a Chula Vista police detective. Huppert is a 1947 LincolnHigh School graduate.No StrangerNo stranger to Chula Vista—he served with the U.S. Navy at nearby Imperial Beach from 1959 to 1965—Allen said he thought abouttaking the tests for the police force when he was separated from the Navy but decided instead to return to Lincoln.Son follows Detective Soukup’s footsteps.questions about who d i dwhat, their descriptions and their records,” he added.bers and he had wanted tobe the policeman.Esudier this year he applied for the department and this summer spent three weeks in Chula Vista taking mental and physical examinations.Tough TestsAlthough most of the candidates who failed the police tests were eliminated on theHis brother Glen, 23, is a junior in the University of Nebraska College of Law.mental part, Allen said the physical agility test was equally as hard.Assn. HonorsConservationistThe former consisted ofwas a 100-yard obstaclegeneral knowledge and com- course with high jumps, barparisons, he said, plus a spe-other obstacles,” he said.cial emphasis on remember- ' ^ad to quality in 42lug details.seconds which Isn’t as easy‘‘We were given mug shots of six criminals with information as to their crimes,habits and other pertinent data and were allowed toas it sounds,” he added. HisO'Neill W—The Nebraska section of the American RangeManagement Association voted to invite the national group to hold its 1969 meeting in Omaha and awarded the 1966time, he said, was 37 seconds.Allen said he hadn’t restudy them for 10 minutes, he said.ceived any particular police training from his father. He said that like most boys hehad nlaveri rnna anH rnK.state meeting to North Platte Sept. 15-16.The association presented an award for distinguished service to Lorenz S. Brede-mier, now with the U.S. Conservation Service at Madison, Wis., and formerly stationed in Nebraska at O’Neill andSoukup Clan Is Triple Threat For Those Who Flout the LawBy Bill tillinghastThe Rothschild family isknown for banking, the Kennedy clan is noted for politics and a Lincoln family may soon be known for a specialty—law enforcement.On Monday Lincoln police detective Frank Soukup of 4201 G will bid goodbye to his son, Allen, 24, who joinsthe police department in Chula Vista, California.
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Lincoln Sunday Journal and Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Sep 19, 1965
Page 13
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