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Friday, September 2, 1988/The Battalion/Page 13 'S "'astes '«'s seel,, n. but acty El Paso Police search for clues on murders Officer: One piece lost from puzzle who 978 a s , 8 ()v emJ f(le i'al wjj, •ary seiva; 0 meet t(| ■nts." ttil il[ an Oj ■irl!i u 11 t( > edurl 'S the rJ EL PASO (AP) — El Paso Police [believe they are missing just one [piece of information that may lead [to an arrest in connection with the [slayings of six young women whose [bodies were found buried in the de- [sert. The first of the bodies was found [nearly a year ago, but police have so [ far charged no one in the slayings. “There is a bit of information out [there we need, and if we get it, that [could mean the end of this case,” [Capt. Creg Drollinger said, de mining to be more specific about the piece of evidence. On Sept. 4, 1987, some water util ity employees spotted the first two of six young women whose decom posed bodies were found buried in the desert of northeast Ed Paso dur ing a five-month period. The victims varied in age from 14 to 23. They were found buried in shallow graves within a half-mile of S U |*|; Tii(|ii,ii, rsdav ti t udj-e Ri~ i resieildf ' spard* mioimiu as he wj tlxHliviiii I hursdn I him i a bar it tuck ii t jeans ;u It inivic I resuli v s m ih K) line, bniinmm ai(|uani lisdiarst • in Kiii'ei „ lm J olraib I ie Movie causes more uproars near Dallas DALLAS (AP) — About 1,000 Christians protested the first Dal las showings of "The Last Temp tation of Christ” at the movie’s first sellout showings in Dallas, and a smaller group protested the protesters. “They’re a pretty good group of people,” said Dallas Police Sgt. Ray Beaudreault, in charge of a tactical squad at the AMC Pres- tonwood 5 Theater in far North Dallas, where the show began Wednesday. “They had opposing view points," he said. “It’s just democ racy in action.” A beefed-up private security force helped Beaudreault and nine other Dallas police officers make sure nothing got out of hand. Police reported no incidents. The vast majority of the pro testers opposed the film, includ ing a group of several hundred from one church, Christ for the Nations, located in the Dallas neighborhood of Oak Cliff. Russ Houck, a talk show host on an area Christian radio sta tion, said: "It (the protest) al lowed people to stand up for him (Jesus). It allowed the people who produced this kind of trash to re alize we’re not going to take it anymore.” “There is a bit of in forma tion out there we need, and if we get it, that could mean the end of this case. ” — Capt. Greg Drollinger each other near the city’s outskirts. The first two bodies — those of Maria Rosa Casio, 23, of Addison, and of Karen Baker, 20, of El Paso — were found near each other in a pile of dirt and trash near some sagebrush. After police dogs found the bod ies of El Pasoans Desiree Wheatley, 15, and Dawn Smith 14, on Oct. 20, police said they believed a serial killer might be responsible for the killings. They formed a task force whose members have interviewed more than 400 witnesses from Utah to Florida to Mexico, Drollinger said. Later, the bodies of two more El Paso women were found buried in the desert. The body of Angelica Frausto, 17, was found last Nov. 3, and Ivy Williams, 23, on March 14. More than 50 people have been considered suspects, but the number of suspects has since been trimmed to less than 10, said Sgt. Ramiro Go mez, who is in charge of the six-man task force. Investigators refuse to name any suspects or say exactly how many there are. “We are not always interested in telling people what direction our in vestigation is taking,” Drollinger, who oversees the Criminal Investiga tions Division, said. “We need to be cautious because we are trying to build the strongest case possible.” Elderly women stitch away time at senior center STEPHENVILLE (AP) — The huge frame fills the room, dwarfing the two women who sit stitching and chatting about the week’s happen ings. Soon a man peeks around the corner and calls out: “Hey, Cotton- top.” Thelma Miller looks up and laughingly waves him away. This is a typical scene at the Se nior Citizen’s Center where every day is a quilting bee. Thelma Miller, Thelma Noah, Odessa Wylie and others gather as often as they can to work on the lat est quilt and to visit. Quilting, for most of these women, is an art they learned from their mothers or their grandmoth- “My grandmother started me when I was 10 years old,” Miller said. Noah recalls helping her mother when she was a young teenager. “The first thing to do to make a quilt is to put up a frame,” Noah said. “Next, you cut out all the pieces, or you can piece as you go, like I do.” The women explained that the pieces can be sewn together by hand or on a machine. Once the pieces are sewn together, they make up the “top.” The next step is to put a lining, the batting, and the top on a frame. Then it’s time to quilt —stitch the batting, lining and top together. Some things have changed since Miller and Noah began to quilt but most have stayed the same, they say. One difference is the batting that fills the quilt is no longer made of cotton. Instead, it is polyester. “The cotton batting slipped more and needed more stitches to hold it in place,” Miller said. Another change is the way the stitches are made to sew the batting in place. When Miller and Noah were growing up, the women used to quilt in shells or half-squares. “They would use a piece of chalk tied to a string to measure and mark where to sew.,” Noah said. Now, most people sew along the lines of the pattern. Neither Noah nor Miller could say how long it takes to finish a quilt. “It just depends on who comes in to help and how long they stay,” Miller said. “When we get tired of quilting, we pick up and go play dominoes,” she said. e Texas i has de allowing er (In!' I nest I"' Graham y would anguagi e dead liest fa ie South d it w! illion in s its ratt »re to bt j be al- iry case. enithas ing the -hedule ne coni- Airline files lawsuit against scalpers FORI WORTH (AP) — American Airlines says it hopes lawsuits filed in three cities against individuals and companies will help end alleged abuses of the air line’s AAdvantage frequent flier program. “We simply cannot tolerate this situation,” Lowell Duncan, vice president-corporate communications for American Airlines said. Duncan said more lawsuits may he filed. “We have an obligation to our AAdvantage members who do abide by the rules and to our paying customers to put a stop to the practice,” he said. Duncan said the complaints allege that millions of dollars in revenue are being lost due to sale and barter of AAdvantage awards. The seven-year-old program’s rules specify that cus tomers earning free trips and benef its cannot sell their tickets to others. Members may give awards to anyone they choose, but the airline has repeatedly reminded people that the awards can not be sold, purchased or bartered. The lawsuits were filed Thursday in Fort Worth against Texas Traveller, in Salt Lake City against Plati num World Travel and The Coupon Connection; and in New York against American Coupon Exchange. The companies do major business in buying awards from frequent fliers and selling them to others. In all three suits, American has asked for an injunc tion to stop the defendants from purchasing, selling and bartering of brokering AAdvantage frequent flier bonus mileage. American filed a similar lawsuit Tuesday in Fort Worth against Texas Budget Flights and the travel agency’s owners, Curtis R. Sweeten and Tonya K. 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