The Monitor from McAllen, Texas • 7

ft 'w A jZ fi i li $JtLai 4 Vi Wk i Saturday March 29 1997 THE MONITOR McAllen Texas 7A CALIORNIA CULT SUICIDES the name Herff and Bonnie Ap Scheopner said The picture stayed up in the de tective division until about two week the Corpus Christi Caller Times and local media quizzed him about what he remembered Vasquez also was scheduled to make an appearance on Nightline on riday evening televi sion sources reported knew the local media would be kind of interested because he die name Police Chief Jim Scheopner said once in a while a story would be on TV about a group who were going to be taken into space until Thursday when he heard news ac counts that Applewhite was prob ably the leader of the cult of com puter programmers who committed mass silicide in California Applewhite was among the 39 dead and police believe he was ing reports that Harlingen was the only known police depart ment to have arrested Applewhite thrust Vasquez into the limelight Vasquez who was arresting officer in 1974 was bom barded with telephone calls from news media across the United States wanting to know about the incident was handled here but I have NBC News the Associated Press any idea that news media The New York Times Time News would be Vasquez said Harlingen police also arrested Nettles who was traveling with Ap plewhite in August 1974 on a charge of credit card abuse Vasquez said she had several sto by UOs We would toss around len credit cards in her possession She died in 1985 or years mug shot was tacked up on a Harlingen police bulletin board as a curiosity because years ago when the detectives of his UO tales and unusual mid moved to another area in the build ounder Continued from page one I lfi and up him with Vasquez said he had almost for their leader auto theft gotten about his clqse encounter Police did not remember if he" with Applewhite and his late part was convictedqnd county records net' Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles were unavailable because of the hol iday Harlingen police Capt Joey Vasquez said Applewhite? had planned to rent conference room at the former Ramada Inn at 1800 Harrison Ave to hold a news conference on UOs Space cult sparks Saturday only don't miss our memories of Weslaco $80000 believers in UOs (company wide) Panache Card Giveaway Plus Saturday take another our already reduced prices In Concert Main Ploce Center 1812 16th St (beskte Movie 6) McAllen 618 4450 Mon Sat 10 9 Sun 12 6 are coddled not scrambled By ALLEN ESSEX Valley Morning Star Contemporary Christian Singer One card per customer please Must be 1 8 years old to qualify No purchase necessary Stein Mart employees and their families are not eligible others were charged with attempt ing to blow up former Weslaco Mayor Hector arias car with a pipe bomb at the McAllen Sher win Williams paint store he man aged OD members apparently were angry with arias for his ef forts to develop a shopping center next to their property Lingenfelter was convicted of the ebruary 1985 pipe bomb at tack He was sentenced to 10 years in prison fined $8000 and ordered to pay $3447 in restitu tion for damage to the paint store and a car arias declined riday to discuss the OD incidents or the trial A Weslaco man Dan Hoverson was indicted for involvement in the bombing but his charges were later dropped A woman named Kathleen Bruckner was also in dicted but could not be found Retired Valley Morning Star re porter Nolene Hodges recalls that car was not bombed an other car was mistakenly damaged by the pipe bomb No one was injured In 1985 federal officials said members of the group refused to acknowledge the jurisdiction of the federal courts and claimed to be aligned with an extraterrestrial power they called Outer Dimen sional orces Their house owned by Gordon was called the Center of Time Sta tion Earth and members claimedthen that a Time Arc would lead them from the destruction of Ar mageddon The extraterrestrial spacecraft will land at the Weslaco property for the final days of Ar mageddon OD literature distrib uted in the 1980s states The struggle involving the prop erty was not the first between Gor don and the government Hodges said Hidalgo County leaders had gone to court to condemn part of land for the expressway project she said Money was de posited in a bank in his name but he never used it During Hurricane Beulah in 1967 Gordon came to City Hall she said whole Valley was flooded It was terrible He said they were putting out the wrong information that it was not the hurricane that was causing the problem It was a spaceship that had landed out there (at property)" EASTER SUNDAY SERVICES: Sunrise Service 7:00 AM Sunday School 9:00 AM Worship Service 10:00 AM (Special Music) DAVID ROBERTSON One lucky customer will win a $50 Panache card our lucky customers will win $25 Panache cards Seventy lucky customers will win $5 Panache cards One lucky customer will win the Grand Prize a $100 PANACHE CARD and be awarded the very prestigious Stein Mart Golden Egg award Stein Mart will be closed Sunday so our employees can enjoy the holiday with their families Shop with us again on Monday at ll) am Softly suited to spring A romantic floral jacquard weskit blouse A fully lined long slim skirt in dyed to match spring colors Separates with individual personalities that work perfectly together Misses' sizes 6 1 6 2997 each piece $40 to $50 at another store WESLACO The Gate suicides brought back memo ries of the mid 1980s when a local group of UO believers and tax opponents clashed with local and federal lawmen The Weslaco based Outer Di mensional orces is still active at their a piece of prime property at the comer of arm to Market Road 88 and Expressway 83 surrounded by a Wal Mart store and parking lot City and business leaders want ed the land for a shopping center But members of the OD were reserving it as a landing site for a flying saucer that will carry them away from the Mid Valley when Armageddon arrives said federal officials who investigated the group after it was linked to a 1985 pipe bombing in McAllen The Outer Dimensional orces property was owned by the leader Orville Gordon who used the name Gordon spelled backward for OD activities A sign posted on the gate of the property states: Base Manasseh ree Territory Ma nasseh complex Area 6 Arma geddon Valley Warning 2 con tamination 100 ft radius from house Do not cross fence line Honk horn three Two men approached the gate riday but upon learning a news paper reporter wished to visit one man said Several Weslaco residents said Gordon has cither become a re cluse or died No outsider can confirm rumors he is buried on the property Longtime city resident Glen Housley said the violence of the 1980s may not have been caused by members of the original Wesla co UO group there was an ad ditional group came down and in filtrated it and brought along with them the knowledge of explosives and he said know that one afternoon the BI the AT and everyone was out there and they raided The group had a history of sending ultimatums to City Hall federal prosecutors said during the 1986 trial of Mark Alan Lingcn felter who was associated with the group The philosophy Many Weslaco residents includ seemed similar to that of anti ing herself and family members government militia groups are still afraid of OD Hodges In 1985 Lingenfelter and two said SATURDAY MARCH 29 7:30 PM Have song in US in ebruary At Trinity Worship Center Hwy 281 Nolana Pharr $300 DONATION AT THE DOOR Saturday only Three essentials with an innovative attitude 30 off sale 1 397 lo 4197 Regularly 1997 to 5997 $30 to 1 25 at another store rom our collections in Exterior lor Him sportcoats dress shirts with' creative'collar details and dress slacks with varied pleat treatments SteruOloXt You could pay more But you'll have to go somewhere else We're giving away Panache Cards Stein Mart's very own gift certificate to our early customers on Saturday March 29 Boutique Misses Petites Women's sizes 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