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The Reporter, Sundoy, October 9, 1988 Pog 1 Sec. A Newsmakers Unsolved killings may 1 link Seattle, San Diego i )) 1 1 1 1 SAN DIEGO (AP) Wendy Lee Coffield's strangl-; ed body was found dumped in the Green River south of Seattle in 1982. This year, the scattered remains of i Peri Suzette Farmer were found in rural San Diego County. Some 1,700 miles and six years separates the slay-s ings, but task forces in Washington and California are trying to determine whether an elusive murderer's path can be traced between them a path marked by up to 56 other deaths and disappearances. Coffield, 16, was the first victim linked to the soli called Green River serial killer, who is officially blamed for the murders of 40 women in Washington and Oregon.

On Sept. 27, a San Diego County Sheriff's Depart-3 ment spokesperson said the department had identified Farmer, 22, and that her death was being investigated by a 10-member task force formed to investigate the "killings and any possible link to the Green River case. Police blame the disappearances of eight others in and Oregon on the same killer, who preyed mostly on prostitutes and transients until the slayings appeared to end in March 1984. The San Diego task force is looking into the deaths ot women, dating back to June 1985, whose bodies dumped throughout the county and whose seem to fit the pattern of the Green River I killings. jLt.

Bill Baxter, head of the San Diego Sheriff's Department homicide unit, has said up to a dozen, cases may be related. "It's a possibility," Baxter said this summer. "I wouldn't say it's remote. But it hasn't risen to a conclusive statement that there's a linkage." "The lead detectives in this case believe the Green River killer is responsible for some of the killings in San Diego," a Green River Task Force detective told The San Diego Union newspaper in August. San Diego sheriff's spokeswoman Sgt.

Liz Foster said two men arrested connection with attacks on prostitutes are being investigated. No one contacted Saturday at either the sheriff's office or the police department knew about the status of the investigation. Similarities exist among the cases Most victims were strangled, had backgrounds in prostitution or drug use and were transients. Most of the Seattle victims were found near an area called Pacific Highway South, which is dotted with motels and bars popular with prostitutes. Most of the San Diego victims were found near or along El Cajon Boulevard, an area much like the Seattle strip.

In Seattle, the killer dumped a number of his victims in wooded areas 30 to 40 miles from the city. In San Diego, many of the bodies were left on secondary roads within 75 miles of the city. The Green River series appears to have ended in 1984, after police began heavy enforcement efforts against men patronizing prostitutes. The San Diego series began in 1985. AP Laser Photo Greatest smiles part of the advanced preparation for the celebration of National Dental Hygiene Week to be observed Oct.

16-22. The winning smiles were chosen by dental hygenists throughout the country. Singer Whitney Houston, left, actress Delta Burke, center, and actor Burt Reynolds have the whitest teeth and the greatest smiles in the nation, the American Dental Hygenists' Association reports as Seance to mark anniversary of Harry Houdini's death to Houdini's spirit. The Associated Press disprove that his spirit was among the seekers. Designated individuals at the seance are to be placed around a table by the seance director.

The medium is to request an equal number of participants on his left and right. That group is known as the "inner circle." Once the medium is in a trance, amid the dim lighting and silence, the seance director is to ask members of the inner circle to direct questions to the medium and Radner, Muller and Society of American Magicians president Bob Steiner are to be members of the inner circle, in addition to Jay Marshall of Chicago, a noted magician, magic historian and magic shop owner, and Marie Blood, of Pinehurst, N.J., a niece of Houdini who as a child participated in some of his stage shows. There also will be a designated member of the news media at the table. Wienermobile visits city Peace follcs dccdlocEicd NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) The foreign ministers of Iran and Iraq have agreed in principle to a U.N. proposal to end their 8-year-old war, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said Saturday.

Iraqi officials indicated that the 6-week-old peace talks remain deadlocked. Velayati, interviewed by the official Islamic Republic News Agency as he flew back to Tehran from New York, said negotiators from both sides agreed that Iran and Iraq would withdraw their troops within 15 days to pre-war borders and exchange war prisoners. Cycnido evacuation NITRO, W.Va. (AP) A chemical cleanup crew planned to blow up a rusting cylinder Sunday without knowing for sure what was inside or if it could explode prematurely, and officials asked 3,500 residents to evacuate just in case. The 4-foot-long container at the defunct Artel Chemical Co.

plant could contain up to 30 pounds of hydrogen cyanide gas, federal Environmental Protection Agency officials said. Deficit (Continued from page AD Segregated fees, levied "to support student services not funded by tuition, added $82 to the $840 tuition bill for UW-Madison undergraduates this semester. Students "have got to be part of the process" of dealing with the deficit, Shalala said. If new segregated fees were used to fund $215,000 of the deficit, it would cost'each student $5. Rob McGinnis, shared governance director for the United Council of UW Student Governments, said he thought students would grudgingly go along with extra fees to fund sports programs.

"I don't think students are opposed to picking up a piece of the athletic budget," McGinnis said. "The bottom line is, how much is it going to be?" Nicholas said Friday the state subsidy idea had merit, but he would not want to use tax dollars to perpetuate poor coaching. Nicholas said the department and coaches needed their salaries tied to performance as an incentive to excel. Trial delayed PITTSBURGH (AP) A federal judge Friday delayed the counterfeiting trial of white su- Eremacist James Wickstrom ecause of a defense attorney's illness. U.S.

District Judge Glenn Mencer continued the trial until Oct. 19. The trial began Monday, and attorney Charles Scarlata, who is representing co-defendant David Gardner, became sick Wednesday. Federal authorities allege Wickstrom, 45, of Homer City, Indiana County, tried to buy and distribute counterfeit money and planned to finance activities by the racist group he founded, Posse Comitatus. APPLETON, Wis.

(AP,) The Official Houdini Seance, after being held in Los Angeles last year, is to return to Appleton on Halloween the 62nd anniverary of the death of the famed magician and escape artist who grew up here. Harry Houdini devoted a substantial part of his career to debunking mediums and others who claimed they could communicate with the dead. He vowed that, if there was a channel for such communication, he would find it after his own death. He died Oct. 31, 1926, in Detroit, the victim of peritonitis as the result of an unexpected blow to the abdomen by a young man who wanted to test Houdini's famed strength.

Houdini was born Ehrich Weiss, the son of Mayer Samuel Weiss, Appleton's first rabbi. The Official Houdini Seance has been held on Halloween every year since Houdini's death. But it has never conclusively made contact with the spirit of the escape artist. Last year's event was hosted by actor William Shatner, and was televised. Organizers of this year's seance, like one held in Appleton two years ago, are Thomas J.

Boldt, Appleton, who has been a promoter of Appleton's Houdini heritage, and Sydney H. Radner, Holyoke, a Houdini scholar and once a protege of Houdini's brother and fellow magician, Theodore Har-deen. Radner said the seance will take place at a secret location, shortly after midnight on Halloween morning. The approximately 100 invited guests will be transported to the unknown site. Radner will bring along a set of handcuffs Houdini said he would unlock if ever he returned from the dead.

Henry Muller, owner of the Houdini Hall of Fame in Niagara Falls, Ontario, will be present with an envelope said to contain a code Houdini devised to prove or country. There's a whole generation of kids out there who have never seen the Wienermobile. We're bringing them back as part of the Hometown Tour." Fond du Lac, by a stroke of luck, is among the first communities to shake hands with Wienermobile history. Hofmeister decided to visit Fond du Lac as part of her trip to Green Bay during the weekend for the Wienermobile's appearance at the "Big Event for Little People." The giant hot dog, which rests on a toasted-bun chassis eight-feet wide, is not the easiest thing in the world to navigate, says Hofmeister. "You really have to watch your buns," she said.

In their journeys, the Wiener-mobiles will make appearances in parades, festivals, baseball games and picnics. visit or- Ehanages, nursing homes and undreds of communities coast to coast as part of a tour titled "A Salute to the Kids." Oscar Mayer Wienermobiles left the streets of America almost two decades ago. They're back by popular demand, thanks to the "highly successful anniversary tour of the last drivable vehicle," according to company officials. (Continued from page Al) said. "I can't remember tfie name of the store, but I remember this thing.

Remember those wiener whistles? What a great promotional idea." Anybody who remembers the 1950s and Little Oscar could never forget wiener whistles. They were a hot item at the 1965 Worlds Fair in New York where they sold for 2 cents in vending machines. Today, they're even hotter. Collectors gobble them up for resale at anywhere from $2 to $10 each. Today, a team of Hotdoggers that staffs the fleet of six brand new Wienermobiles, distributes stickers and balloons, and even T-shirts on occasion, to the crowds of children and adults who swarm around them.

At the helm of the Wienermobile during its journey through the streets of Fond du Lac was Greta Hofmeister, a UW-Madison home economics graduate and the only Wisconsin native on the Hotdoggers team. Her colleagues are young college graduates from states across the nation. "It's a great job. It's fun," she said. "We meet people all over the Lottery winners State lotteries drawn Friday Illinois Daily: 993; Pick-4: 2744; Cash-5: 5, 10, 28, Michigan Daily: 756; Daily-4: 1937.

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