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PASO I HERALD-POST, Saturday, January 23, 1988 Border Briefs El Paso Herald-Post DEATHS EDUARDO DIAZ SR, 87, El Pascan for 77 years, Wednesday. Funeral set for 9 a.m. today at San Antonio Catholic Church; burial at Mount Carmel Cemetery. Hillcrest. LILLIAN WEIR DUKEMINIER, 79, Wednesday in Albuquerque.

Her parents, William and Caroline Geck, were pioneers in Dona Ana, N.M. The family started the Historical Wagon Train Business Record. She worked for Mountain States Telephone Co. Service set for noon today at Restlawn Memorial Park. She will be cremated.

contributions may be made to American Heart Association. LOUISE LELIE, 86, retired school teacher and member of Delta Kappa Gamma, Wednesday. She worked for the Ysleta and Socorro school districts. Funeral scheduled for 10 a.m. today at Harding-Orr McDaniel Montana Avenue Chapel; burial at Restlawn Cemetery.

MICHAEL BRUCE THOMASON, 87, Canutillo resident and retired carpenter, Wednesday. He was a member of Masonic Lodge 130, El Paso Scottish Rite Bodies and El Maida Shrine Temple. Graveside Masonic service set for 2 p.m, today at the Masonic Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to El Maida Shrine Transportation Fund, 6331 Alabama 79904. Harding-Orr McDaniel.

MARY JULIA "CLAYTOR" WALLER, 96, former El Pasoan, Monday in Austin. She was deacon at First Presbyterian Church of El Paso and was an honorary member of the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. Her husband, John L. Waller chairman of the department of history and government at Texas College of Mines (now UT El Paso). Services and burial in Austin.

SCHOOL MENUS by the Southwest AIDS Committee, plans to meet at 1 p.m. today. The group helps people infected with the HIV virus to deal with everyday probl.ms. Free. Crisis intervention is available.

For location of meetings call 533-5003. free class for those who have problems with alcoholism or drug abuse in their families is offered Saturdays by the West Texas Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. The class is held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Miners Hall at the UT El Paso campus.

For more information call John McCord, 772-0139. People interested in volunteering at schools in the Ysleta Independent School District are invited to attend an orientation meeting at 9 a.m. Monday at the district offices, 9600 Sims Drive. Call 595-5565 for more information. Reservations for the American Business Women Association's Women of the Year dinner must be made by Wednesday.

Luci Washburn, District Ill vice president of ABWA, will be the keynote speaker. All chapters in the area are invited to the dinner to be held Feb.6 at the Marriott Hotel. For more information call Janet Kimball at 779-8186. RELIGION NEWS EDUCATORS WORKSHOP Christian teachers can learn techniques on how to handle students' personal crises when they affect the class at a workshop sponsored by the Committee for Excellence in Christian Education. Counseling experts will lead four sessions, each for a specific age group.

The interdenominational workshop is scheduled for 8:30 a.m. to noon, Saturday Jan. 30 at Pro Cathedral Church of St. Clements, 810 N. Campbell St.

Cost is $15 for individuals or $12.50 each if three or more attend from the same church. For information and registration call Martha at 857-0764 or Barbara 568-5093. CATHEDRAL ALTAR SOCIETY Yolanda Holland was installed president of the St. Patrick's Cathedral Altar Society at the annual luncheon held Jan. 9 at Coronado Country Club.

The Rev. Fidel Cervantes led the installation of the officers. The 1988 officers are vice presidents, Barbara Gorman and Betty Ann Haag, recording secretary, Julieta Grado and treasurer Zylpha Sullivan. Holland is also a member of Ladies of Charity, Mary Milton Lodge of the United Transportation Union and past president of the El Paso Emblem Club 303. Yolanda Holland VALLEY ALTAR SOCIETY The Rev.

Manuel B. Soria officiated at the United Methodist Church. Refreshments installation of Our Lady of the Valley Altar will be served at 6 p.m. and dinner at 6:30 Society President Gloria S. Guzman.

The p.m. Tickets are $8 per person. Reserva1988 officer installation was held during a tions are requested by Wednesday, Call luncheon at Wyatt's Cafeteria. Other 1988 the 562-7004 or write to CHIA at 2900 officers are: Elena Beltran, vice president; Pershing Drive, El Paso, Texas, 79903. Bertha Carpenter, secretary; and Helen Rozycki, treasurer.

EVANGELIST in DRAMATIST Dressed Hebrew costume, the Rev. LECTURE SEMINAR First Unity Wesley Putnum blends music and drama Church of Positive Living is sponsoring an to emphasize a message of renewal. illustrated lecture seminar on Teilhard de Putnum will visit St. Luke United MethodChardin's "'The Phenomenon of Man." ist Church, 9915 Montwood Drive, leadUnity minister Pauline J. Beauregard of ing the 7 p.m.

services Sunday through San Diego will lead the seminar sche- Wednesday. He is an ordained United duled from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Methodist clergyman who earned a Midcity Holiday Inn at Raynolds Street bachelor's of music degree from Northand Gateway Boulevard East. A donation east Louisiana University and a master's is requested.

Beauregard will also speak of divinity degree from Asbury TheologiSunday at the 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. cal Seminary. His musical compositions services at the church, 1300 E. Rio are recorded on five albums and his Grande Ave.

For registration or informa- dramatic interpretations of New and Old tion call 532-1188. Testament characters are available on CHIA The Rev. Wen- audio and video cassettes. BANQUET dell Grout of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, will speak about his church's missions Compiled by Stephanie Graves program at the third annual Christian Federal news and Crimestoppers run Hands In Action Banquet. Grout's church Monday, education news runs Tuesday, has an annual budget of $400,000 for community affairs and civil cases run mission work.

Members will be celebrat- Wednesday, City Hall and Fort Bliss ing its 1987 accomplishments at the news run Thursday and neighborhood banquet to be held Jan. 30 at Trinity First news runs Friday, Espina Street, to Pioneer Park on Las An HIV support group sponsored Cruces Avenue. In case of bad weather the rally will be held at the Church of the Crosses in the Downtown Mall. APPLICATIONS Interdisciplinary artists may be eligibie for a new grant program sponsored by The Rockefeller Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Michael Peranteau, director of DiverseWorks in Houston will explain the grant at 7:30 p.m.

Jan. 27 at 600-B N. Stanton St. High school students who are interested in applying for $1,000 college scholarships may request applications by March 16 from Educational Communications Scholarship Foundation, 721 N. McKinley Road, Lake Forest, 50045.

To receive an application, students should send a note stating their name, address, city, state and zip code, approximate grade-point average and year of graduation. Sixty-five winners will be selected on the basis of academic performance, involvement in extra-curricular activities and need for financial aid. CLASSES Evening high school classes will be offered at Bel Air High School, 731 Yarbrough Drive, Feb. 3 through May 25. Registration is scheduled for 4 p.m.

to 6:30 p.m. Thursday and 4 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday. Students who are in grades 9 through 12 may register.

Tuition is $80 per course. The full amount is due at registration or by the first day of class. Call 595-5500 for more information. El Paso Police Department is offering a driver's license school for those with a language barrier or who cannot understand the Texas Drivers Handbook. The classes are free and held in English and Spanish.

Lessons cover only the written portion of the test. Registration will be accepted through Tuesday Jan. 26. The classes will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Jan.

26, 27 and 28 at Cooley School, 107 N. Collingsworth St. Call 779-1644 or 779-1653 for registration information. UT El Paso will be offering beginning- and intermediate-level Hebrew classes. Registration will be accepted now.

Elie Amar is the instructor. Classes begin Feb. 3. Call 747-5142 for more information. MEETINGS EI Paso Chapter of the Afro-American Cultural Association will hold a "Special Townhall Meeting and Dinner" at 6:30 p.m.

today, Grandview Baptist Church, 331 Idalia St. Members are organizing an El Paso chapter of a statewide, nonprofit organization that seeks to record and preserve the history of black Texans through exhibits, seminars, lectures and other presentations, The association urges all citizens, regardless of race, creed of color, who are interested in learning about black cuiture to attend. Requested donation is $7.50. For more information call 562-2483. General Casimir Pulaski Society, Polish National Alliance, Lodge 3155 will have its monthly dinner meeting at 6:30 p.m.

today at the El Paso Club, Texas Commerce Bank Building. The meeting is open to anyone of Polish heritage and their family. Call Dennis Lewandowski at 592-7081 or Bertha Evans at 755-0798. TEXAS Judge weighs dismissal of shooting indictments WACO, Texas (AP) A state district judge Friday took under advisement a motion to dismiss indictments against eight members of a splinter religious group accused of attempted murder. The group is charged in connection with a shootout last November at a Seventh-day Adventist church encampment near Waco, Texas.

Judge George Allen took the motion by defense attorney Gary Coker of Waco under advisement but warned prosecutors that legal wording of the indictments is suspect. Coker claims the two-paragraph indictments charging the group with attempted murder and criminal conspiracy fail to allege they attempted to kill Roden, only that they shot at him. Allen said he would rule on the mental competency of George Roden if he is called to testify against the eight men charged with attempting to kill him. Led prophet-leader Vernon Wayne Howell, 28, the group was chased from its former home near Waco at gunpoint two years ago by Roden, a rival prophet, and established temporary operations at Palestine in Anderson County. The group, which recently paid about $68,000 in back taxes on the land near Elk, 10 miles northeast of Waco, claim that Roden is living on the property in violation of a restraining order issued in 1960 by 19th State District Judge Bill Logue.

Allen set a March 28 trial date in the case. The men were arrested after a Nov. 3 shootout with Roden, who was wounded in the hand during the incident. Roden claims to be president and trustee of the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists. The suspects said they were heavily armed and dressed in military fatigues during the Nov.

3 incident to protect themselves from Roden while they attempted to photograph an exhumed body that lay in a casket in the church on the 77-acre ranch. Perry Jones, a spokesman for the splinter group, has charged that Roden was trying to resurrect the body at the church. Roden has denied the allegation and said the body was in the church because he was moving the community's cemetery when his bulldozer broke. A representative of the group says they wanted to take a picture of the body so authorities would have evidence to take legal action against Roden. He said they never intended to harm Roden.

The suspects, all are free on bond, include Howell, who says he, not Roden, is president of the Branch Davidian Seventh-day Adventists Association; Paul Gordon Fatta, 29; Floyd Leon Houtman, 55; Peter James Hipsman, 22; David Michael Jones, 33; Gregory Allen Summers, 22; James Loye Riddle, 27; and Stanley Carl Sylvia, 49. Coker accompanied his pretrial motions with copies of expletive-filled legal petitions that Roden has filed with the Texas Supreme Court and Waco's 10th Court of Appeals in which he tells the justices he hopes God infects them with herpes, AIDS and the "seven last Allen told the attorneys he is aware of Roden's reputation and is familiar with the vulgarities in the petitions Coker offered. Hispanic group planning to report on situation in Central America SAN ANTONIO (AP) A Hispanic voter research group said Friday it will take a delegation to Central America next week. After the excursion, the group then day plans to before report Congress its is experiences set to to vote the on aid media to the Contras. "We are attempting to make clear to all the congressmen the opinion of Hispanics on this matter," said William Velasquez, president of the Southwest Voter Research Institute, which is organizing the trip.

Velasquez said surveys show that 67 percent to 70 percent of Mexican-Americans in the Southwest disagree with U.S. foreign policy in Central America. He said surveys of Mexican-American leadership found that 80 percent to 85 percent are opposed to U.S. policy in Central America. "That means to us that Mexican-Americans in the Southwest are close to forming an opinion on Central and South said Velasquez.

Until a few years ago, he added, half the Mexican-Americans polled did not know enough about foreign affairs to answer questions. "This is an entry of Mexican-Americans into foreign policy uestions," Velasquez said. The Southwest Voter Research Institute is a newly formed research entity formerly part of the San Antonio Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. Those who will visit Costa Rica and Nicaragua with the group include Former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico Julian Nava; former New Mexico Gov.

Anaya, State Rep. Eddie Cavazos, D-Corpus Christi; Mario Obledo, former national president of the League of United Latin American Citizens; and Velasquez. Velasquez said the group will arrive in the region Wednesday and plans to meet with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra; Costa Rican President Oscar Arias Sanchez, author of a regional peace plan; and Nicaraguan Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo, mediator of the peace plan. The group also will visit war zones in Nicaragua, and study the effects of the insurgency on that nation's economy. "The vote in the House is on Feb.

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to 4 p.m, the eastbound lanes from the Geronimo Street entrance to Robert E. Lee Road will be narrowed from three lanes to two lanes. The eastbound Geronimo Drive entrance will be closed. WORKSHOPS Teachers, paraprofessionals and administrators are invited to attend a workshop to exchange bright ideas for use in the classroom. The exchange is scheduled for 4:15 p.m.

Monday Jan. 25 at the El Paso Federation of Teachers office, 5959 Gateway Blvd. West, Suite 112. Participants are asked to briefly write up the bright idea and make 50 copies. For more information, call 772-7447.

El Paso Cultural Planning Council is offering a series of workshops for nonprofit organization. The long-range and strategic-planning session is planned for Tuesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost is $70 per person. A leadership management session is planned for Wednesday and Thursday from 9 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Cost is $100 per person. A volunteer coordination session is scheduled for Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Cost is $70 per person.

All workshops will be at the El Paso Cultural Planning Council, 600-B N. Stanton St. Call 544-1116. Sandler Travis law firm will conduct a workshop on U.S. Customs rules, regulations and procedures to import products produced in twin-plant operations.

The two-day seminar will review current legislation and proposals on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System for U.S. Tariff Classifications. It will be held Thursday and Friday at the Marriott Hotel, 1600 Airway Blvd. Cost is $495. Call Jackie Roth at (305) 358-2413.

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You should spell out EXACTLY to what extent you are willing engage in owner financing, including the interest rate and number of years for repayment. The written counteroffer will include a place for the buyer to sign his acceptance. Once he has signed, a legally binding contract is created. Your Realtor is accustomed to working with offers and counteroffers and win guide you through these complicated procedures and the ones that just start when the contract is agreed to by all parties. Your Real Estate Professional will make sure your sale closes quickly at the best price and with the fewest problems.

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Lunch: hot dogs with mustard, tater tots with ketchup, fruit cocktail, milk. YSLETA SCHOOLS Breakfast: raisin cinnamon batter bread, milk. Lunch: country-fried steak with mashed potatoes and gravy or western stuffed potato; and Mexi-corn, hot roll, banana pudding, chilled milk. ANNOUNCEMENTS A 2-mile fun run, a 10-kilometer run and a "pee-wee" walk scheduled for today will benefit the West Texas Lions Eye Bank. A barbecue featuring the Charlie Russell Band is also pianned for the event.

The run will start at 10 a.m. at Shawver Park, located at Yarbrough Drive and the Border Highway. Entry fees are $8 for the 2-mile run and $3 for the walk for children under 12. To enter call 532-6044, 584-4673 or 598-5948. The Knights of Columbus of Las Cruces are sponsoring today a Right To Life march to commemorate sanctity of human life.

The march will start at p.m. from St. Genvieve's Catholic Church parking lot on Griggs Avenue and DISCOVER The First Trade Center in El Paso would like to invite you to come and see things you've never seen Example: Sandsations, unusual crystal pieces, wishing wells, handmade mobiles, personalized NOW LEASING concha sweatshirts, reverse oil paintings, and SPACE much more. EAST EL PASO TRADE CENTER Open BRING THIS COUPON AND RECEIVE OFF AT ANY OF OUR STORES. Friday 12-7; Saturday Sunday 11108 MONTANA 591-8111 a COUPON I (1 block East of Cinema Park Drive In).