Tales from the Morgue

12,000 At Christ Statue Dedication

October 30, 1939

Devout Pilgrims Climb to Peak For Ceremony

Barefooted, with shoes under their arms, women with infants in arm, men, women and children, some 12,000 of them – they marched for hours up the sinuous path to the top of Mount Cristo Rey to honor Christ the King, to witness the dedication of the great monument in His honor, and around again His words spoken to another multitude on a mountain, 2000 years ago – “Blessed are the Peacemakers.”

The pilgrims began the ascent shortly after noon, and five hours later, when the dedication ceremonies were over, they still formed a chain up the mountain slope, passing those descending.

Mothers led toddling youngsters. Fathers carried infants. The aged and infirm labored up the graded path, pausing at the Stations of the Cross lining the way, to rest and to pray. One elderly woman, with her shoes inconspicuously wrapped in paper walked barefoot and smiled in reply when asked if her feet hurt. “Malisima de as piernas,” she said, and continued on her way, hoping this penance would help to affect a cure of her rheumatic legs.

Behind the first thousands to make the ascent came the formal procession of clergymen, religists, veterans of American Legion Post 36, and the pilgrims, parish by parish, singing hymns and reciting the Rosary. The procession wound into the heavy shadows of the mountains and out into the glaring sunlight of early afternoon.

Pilgrims Are Blessed

Most Rev. A.J. Schuler, S.J.D.D., L.L.D., Bishop of El Paso, who officiated at the dedication, carried in the sidecar of a motorcycle up the slope, passed through the pilgrims blessing them as he went.

Soon after 3 p.m., the rocky summit of the mountain, westward of the 40-foot monument, swarmed with people, seeking points of vantage to view the ceremony at the altar at the base of the cross. The salute of Christ was on the other side of the monument, overlooking El Paso, and Mexico to the southeast; but on that side the mountain fell away too precipitously to hold the great mass of people for the services.

It was the sixth annual pilgrimage up the mountain in honor of the Feast of Christ the King, which comes on the last Sunday of October. Six years ago the first cross, a wooden one, 12 foot high was placed on the summit.

Amid the awesome grandeur of rugged mountains, low mesas and desert sweeping more than 100 miles away, and almost 1000 feet below, the throng knelt before the glaring white cross as Bishop Schuler raised the golden Monstrance, containing the Blessed Sacrament, afire in light of the setting sun, and blessed them then turned toward Mexico and blessed that country.

Presents National Emblem

Dr. Ralph Homan, of American Legion Post 36, presented the National Emblem of the monument. It was raised on its staff by Sgt. Leo Camplin, another veteran, his chest heavy with medals won in the World War. Rev. Father W.A. Swinburne, assistant pastor of St. Patrick’s cathedral, said the invocation.

Bishop Schuler accepted the monument from a delegation of 12 workers, headed by the foreman. Domingo Placentia, representing the 125 workers on the project. Rev. Father L.F. Costa, of the Smelter Church, and Urbiel Soler, sculptor, completed the unveiling, and Bishop Schuler blessed the monument.

Father Costa read a poem, written by himself, honoring Bishop Schuler, who Saturday observed the 24th anniversary of the appointment as a bishop. The poem also thanked the bishop for his interest and making the monument possible.

Rev. Father Emeterio Diego, assistant pastor of Guardian Angel Church, spoke on the history of the Feast of Christ the King, who always advocated peace among men. The new monument, near the international border, he said, replaced the 25-foot statue to Christ the King on Mount Cubilet, near Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico. That statue was destroyed in 1926 by an aerial bomb upon the order of the Mexican government, he said.

During the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, Bishop Schuler read “The Act of Consecration to the Sacred Heart” in English, and Rev. Father G. Garcia, S.J, assistant pastor of St. Ignatius Church, read it in Spanish.

The Franciscan Choir, composed of nine priests and 23 scholastics from St. Anthony’s Seminary in Austin Terrance, sang a hymn to Christ the King.

Bishop Schuler officiated at benediction and was assisted by honorary deacons, Rev. Father J.M. Llovet, C.M.F., pastor of Gordian Angel Church, and Father Garcia.

At the foot of the cross during benediction were Sisters of Loretto, Daughters of St. Vincent de Paul, Sisters of St. Joseph, Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word, Sisters Catechists, Christian Brothers, 25 priests and the Franciscan Choir.

The committee of the Monument to Christ the King Diocesan Project included: Bishop Schuler, chairman; Father Costa; A.J. Slogeris, engineer; Cleofas Calleros; Urbiel Soler, sculptor; the late Right Rev. Monsignor Salvador Uranga, former pastor of the Juarez Church, who died in Canutillo six months ago, and Very Rev. J.C.M. Garde, S.J. vicar-general.

The committee requested that the many persons who took photographs during the ceremony telephone Mr. Calleros, at Main 7262 or Main 2764. The committee would like copy of the photographs, or the loan of the negatives, so that prints can be made from them. A complete photographic library of the project is being made. More than 5900 pictures have been filed already by the committee.

Cut-up mayor leaves some fit to be tied

June 12, 1985

By David Crowder
Times staff writer

The temperature has pushed over the 102-degree mark for four of the past five days, and some people are wondering if it’s getting to Mayor Jonathan Rogers who, ever-armed with his trusty scissors, is escalating his attack on ties.

“He’s gone on a binge,” West Central city Rep. Suzie Azar said Tuesday, referring to the mayor’s latest tie-chopping antics. “He used to ask permission, but lately he’s gone berserk.”

Rogers, who has gained nationwide notoriety for enforcing his ban on coats and ties at City Hall, insists he is fine and that the heat may be going to other people’s heads, but not his.

“Not me, he said, I’m cool and comfortable in my guayabera,” referring to the loose-hanging, Mexican-style sport shirts he wears.

Azar said people became noticeably nervous and started removing their ties when the guayabera-garbed mayor, scissors in hand, showed up Sunday at the victory party for El Pasoan Laura Martinez Herring, who recently was named Miss USA.

“There were people disrobing right and left,” Azar said. “I think he will settle down when the temperature drops.”

As a precaution, the dapper East Central city Rep. Orlando Fonseca, who rarely appears without a coat and tie, has issued a warning some might take as a dare.

“Cut my tie, get a black eye,” Fonseca said.

Rogers’ victims this week have included County Judge Pat O’Rourke, convention bureau Chairman John Folmer and Roy Zuloaga, an account executive with a Dallas advertising firm.

Zuloaga, who handles advertising for McDonalds’s, was fit to be French fried, Fonseca said, when Rogers snipped off the silk garment between the second and third button Monday.

“He said, ‘I don’t care what his policy is, that tie cost $30. It was my favorite yellow tie,’ ” Fonseca reported.

Rogers said he warned Zuloaga in advance.

“I told him what was going to happen if he wore one,” Rogers aid, adding that he had a good reason. “Ronald McDonald, the clown, told me to cut it off.”

Zuloaga, he said, accepted his tie’s fate and probably will show it as a business expense.

The question going now is, “Who will be next?”

1947: Boy Who Cared For Hurt Dog On Mountain Will Get Medal

January 13, 1947

The love of a boy for a dog should not go unnoticed. And for that reason John G. Work, Jr., 15-year-old son of Mr. And Mrs. John G. Work, Sr. of Van Buren Avenue, has been awarded a bronze medal for his fidelity to his injured dog, “Spud,” by the American Humane Association.

The medal will be presented as soon as the medal is prepared.

John spent a cold night last Nov. 16 on the foothills of Mount Franklin after “Spud” was injured and cut chasing a wild animal to such an extent he could not return under his own power. The youngster was unable to carry his dog down the mountain, so he built a fire and spent the night. They were found en route home by searching parties the next morning.

Credit for calling attention to the deed of bravery and fidelity goes to Mrs. Mildred Johnson, 2219 North Stanton Street. Mrs. Johnson, a recent arrival in El Paso from New York, where she was a solid backer of the American humane Association, mailed a clipping form The El Paso Times which told the story to association headquarters in Buffalo, N.Y.

The association wrote her in reply the matter had been referred to its committee on award for consideration.

After verifying facts of the story with Dr. Thomas A. Bray, president of El Paso Humane Society, and Mrs. Bray, secretary, the awards committee voted the medal to the lad.

The medal is now being struck and engraved, and upon completion will be sent to El Paso society, which will have charge of the presentation.

Sad aftermath of the story is the fact that Spud proved to be paralyzed after a few days. One of his injuries was a fractured or injured vertebra.

The eight-year-old Chesapeake retriever has recovered somewhat and now is able to roam the back yard of the Work home, but still does not have free use of his rear legs.

John Jr. romps with “Spud” much of the time, but when the youngster leaves, “Spud” sits at the gate with big tears wailing up in his eyes.

During El Paso’s recent cold wave “Spud” has found a soft, warm bed with his young master.

1929: Arrested Man Asks For Chance To Fight Duel With Constable

October 10, 1929

J. W. Winebrener, El Paso constable, had a chance to “shoot it out” here yesterday. The constable was challenged to a duel and the would-be duelist wasn’t drunk.

Winebrener arrested Juventia Garcia, 706 South Kansas street. Garcia’s wife said he had been whipping her. Garcia’s brother-in-law accompanied the arrested man and the constable to Judge A. J. Wilson’s justice of the peace court where assault charges were filed.

“I’d like to shoot it out with both of you,” Garcia told the officer and his brother-in-law.

“I’m sorry, but I don’t have, an extra gun,” Winebrener told Garcia, “and I could hardly let you have mine.”

Licenses to Wed Break Even With Divorce Cases

October 16, 1924

Dan Cupid and El Paso divorce courts split even yesterday. Five marriage licenses were issued and five petitions for divorce were filed.

Petitions for divorces ere filed by the following: Gay Thompson vs Carmine Thompson; Amelia Landa vs Ernesto Landa; Jacinto Santos vs Clara R. Santos; frank Kantz vs Tupe Rodriguez Kantz; Eva A. Desmond vs H.P. Desmond.

Marriage licensees were granted to the following: Gabino Vasquez and Josepfina Lopez; James P. Dod and Mary Carr; Antonio Stuart and Carmen Martinez; Lorenso Perez and Genoveva Martinez; Hartwell L. Alison and Katherine S. Martin.

Hubby Alleges ‘Nagging;’ Files Divorce Suit

Alleging, that his wife, Carmine Thompson, refused to agree with him and that she complained about everything he did, which resulted in his being unable to sleep, Guy Thompson filed suit for divorce in the thirty-fourth district court yesterday.

Thompson further alleges that due to the constant ”nagging” of his wife he was unable to sleep, which interfered with his working regularly.

1930: Train Delays Police Half Hour On Emergency Call!

May 31, 1930

All downtown traffic was halted across Southern Pacific railroad tracks for more than 30 minutes early last night when a long freight train blocked the most important downtown street crossings.

Cause of the delay and consequent traffic jams in the downtown district could not be learned from Southern Pacific employes last night. The dispatcher on the Rio Grande division on whose the train is said to have been moving stated he had no report of the delay, and expected no report from the train crew until this morning.

Yard employes of the Texas & News Orleans railroad, led by the yardmaster, rushed to the scene of the delay on a switch engine, but the train responsible for the delay had moved. The yardmaster said he went to clear the crossings, but was notified of the delay too late to be of any service.

City police were delayed so long in answering an emergency call to Mesa avenue and Montana streets they were unable to investigate an accident reported there.

Fire officials said they had no fire alarms during the period, fortunately.

Exact time of the delay could not be determined. City police were delayed at Mesa avenue from 8:05 o’clock until 8:30 o’clock. They attempted to cross at all downtown streets, but found the crossings blocked, they reported.

Mary Knott tackled life, jobs head-on

I got an email from Daniel Perez reminding me of a story he wrote about Mary Knott in 2001. Knott died June 17th. You can read her obit here.

January 01, 2001

El Paso Times
By Daniel Perez

As a child in rural Colorado, Mary Knott was a girl of summer, playing baseball and running track - until she was sidetracked by one of the last polio epidemics.

The illness forced her to wear 20 pounds of steel braces from her waist to her feet. That made her bitter at first, but eventually it gave her the can-do attitude that helped her succeed in life.

She started the speech pathology clinic at Beaumont Army Medical Center 30 years ago, aiding thousands of patients and helping train hundreds of other speech pathologists.

Some patients have even called to express regret about Knott's retirement, her successor said.

Knott, 61, who now gets around on a seated motor scooter, will retire today as clinic chief.

In her job with speech pathology - the study and treatment of disorders in speech and language - she fulfilled childhood goals to be a doctor and a teacher.

"I've gone higgly-piggly through life, and God has taken care of me," she said in her West Side home. "It's been a great life."

Knott will be replaced by Donna Lewis, her co-worker and friend for 13 years. Lewis is also one of Knott's many students. She did her internship with Knott in 1981.

Knott's friends plan to celebrate her achievements - both work and civic - at a Jan. 12 party at the Biggs Army Airfield Centennial Club that Lewis is organizing.

Knott's friend Jule Zimet hopes to get a larger slice of her time, so she can plan more events for the Paso del Norte National Issues Forum, which promotes discussion of such issues as alcoholism and teen violence.

Zimet, chair of the group's El Paso chapter, said Knott's wide circle of friends and acquaintances and her ability to get things done make her a great resource.

"She keeps her word, and that's a rare trait in the volunteer world," Zimet said.

"She's extremely competent and one of the most caring individuals I know," Army Col. Rich Dennis said from Washington. "(Knott) is held in high esteem."

Dennis is audiology consultant to Lt. Gen. James Peake, surgeon general of the Army. Dennis served as chief of audiology and speech language pathology at Beaumont for six years until 1993.

He said Knott added prestige to the program and attracted top student interns.

Master's-degree students came from the University of Texas at El Paso, University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University, as well as from Wayne State University in Detroit and Western Illinois University.

UTEP's faculty noted that its students returned to school with a greater spirit of camaraderie, loyalty and professionalism. They credit Knott's leadership for that.

"It was a stronger influence on their careers," said Joseph Perozzi, a professor of speech language pathology at UTEP who retired in 1997 as assistant dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

Perozzi marveled at Knott's longevity in one place in a field with high turnover. He said her stability made the faculty confident about sending students to Beaumont.

Students' praise

Knott's former students remember a woman who was organized, helpful and caring with patients, and who enjoyed her life and work.

By overcoming her disabilities, Knott showed her students that anything can be achieved, said Pat Lara, director of speech pathology with Rio Vista Rehabilitation Program. She was an intern directed by Knott in 1983.

Lara said she draws from Knott's teachings daily in dealing with difficult situations.

"I learned to be independent by watching her," Lara said. "She doesn't see herself with a handicap."

Knott said she decided on her speech pathology career when she was 17. At a hospital where she had gone for physical therapy, she met a young hard-of-hearing patient who had cerebral palsy.

"I loved the interaction with people," she said. "I loved giving back and helping people. I loved seeing (patients') faces as speech developed."

She obtained a job with the Gallup, N.M., school district, staying there six years before going to NMSU on a state fellowship for her master's degree. Knott was hired at Beaumont after she graduated.

Knott's background gave her more empathy with patients, she said. She remembered the initial anger and embarrassment of having polio.

Don't `baby' people

She also recalled the support of her family and townspeople of Minturn, Colo., a town of about 1,000.

"They treated me as if I was still OK," Knott said of her family. "You can't baby someone with a handicap, or they'll become a handicapped adult."

She said she got the job in Gallup because the superintendent looked beyond her disability and the insurance risk. She called that the first of her "great" chances.

Two district principals influenced her decision to attend graduate school. They helped her secure a state fellowship.

Knott had agreed to visit NMSU only if a trip to Juàrez was included. But she said the charisma of Edgar Garrett, the chairman of the university's speech and hearing department, encouraged her to register.

Part of her experience was to intern at Beaumont under Col. James Albright.

Albright was an ear, nose and throat doctor who had set up speech pathology departments at other Army hospitals. He said they were needed to treat injured soldiers returning from the Vietnam War.

The clinic started by seeing soldiers, but it quickly included spouses, other family members and veterans. Knott soon started to get interns to help with the patient load.

"I expected them to be professionals," Knott said. "I expected the best out of them."

During Knott's years at Beaumont, she served at the request of three Texas governors on the Developmental Disabilities Council and helped write state programs for these issues.

Multiple honors

Among the honors she's collected is the recognition as one of NMSU's top 100 graduates, a list the university compiled as part of its 100th anniversary.

She also was named one of the top 10 businesswomen in the country by the American Business Women Association in 1974, and she has earned Army medals for achievement and meritorious civilian service.

Knott is considered a matriarch among some members of El Paso's businesswomen, said Dr. Lily Alvarez, an East Side optometrist who has known her for 14 years.

Alvarez, who also is a member of the ABWA's Amigas Del Sol chapter, said Knott has a national reputation because of the 1974 award.

"Initially, you see the wheelchair, but in no time you forget she's handicapped because of the way she handles herself," said Alvarez, who earned the ABWA's top honor herself in 1995. "She doesn't dwell on inabilities. She gets things done."

Knott is leaving her future open. She says she won't wake up at 5 a.m. anymore, but she's not ruling out anything else, from part-time work to returning to her love of oil painting and traveling.

"I'm not afraid of retirement. It's just another phase of life," Knott said. "Higgly-piggly."

1995: El Pasoans rub elbows with Bruce Willis at city topless club

Daniel Borunda was doing some research on the Naked Harem the other day and came across this article:

December 2, 1995

Robert Moore
El Paso Times -

The Bruce Willis in El Paso sightings have started. Willis in El Paso to film the movie “Welcome to Jericho” spent much of Thursday night at the Lamplighter Lounge, a topless dancing club at 9857 Montana.

The actor – wearing jeans, a tight-fitting blue T-shirt and a green baseball cap – was joined by an entourage of about five or six other men who spent a little more than four hours in a darkened corner at the club.

“After he arrived, one whole part of the room didn’t have any girls because they were all over with him,” said one dancer, who asked not to be identified. Willis would not consent to interviews, club managers said.

The actor spent much of his time getting “table dances” from a variety of entertainers at the club. Occasionally he would light up a cigarette and wander about chatting with other men in the club.

After returning from the bathroom at one point, Willis suddenly stopped and placed fingers from his right hand on his left wrist. “What are you doing,” asked a nearby customer, who coincidentally was wearing a jacket featuring the logo of Planet Hollywood, a restaurant chain co-owned by Willis.

“I’m taking my pulse. I always take my pulse,” Willis said. After a pause he said, “Ok, I’m going to live,” flipped his baseball cap backward and returned to his seat for another table dance.

Willis and his wife, actress Demi Moore, were reportedly looking to rent a house in El Paso last month for use while he was filming in the city. Moore, whose current movie project is “Striptease” in which she plays a topless dancer, was not at the Lamplighter with her husband.

General Brees Dedicates Cavalry Statue

March 29, 1940

A letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who asserted that “it should inspire all who view it with a determination to preserve the heritage which is theirs through the sacrifices of their forebears,” featured dedication of “The Cavalryman,” a huge black granite statue, here Thursday afternoon.

The monument, made possible through the will of the late Percival Henderson, was dedicated by Major Gen. Herbert J. Brees, commander of the Eight Corps Area, himself a cavalryman. It is located in the small triangle in front of Scottish Rite Temple.

Mr. Henderson, in his will, provided that a fund be set up to erect a monument to the memory of his friend, the late William C. Harvie, and to the memory of those pioneer settlers and soldiers who pushed through the Southwest and held it.

A second provision of the will made possible a baby clinic for underprivileged residents of the city. It is located in South El Paso.

SPEAKER KNOWS CAVALRY LIFE

“Being a cavalryman and feeling that I have something in common with the individual whom this monument commemorates, I appreciate the honor of being invited to speak at this dedication,” General Brees said.

He recited the history of the cavalryman and of his coming to the Southwest.

“The real story always has seemed to me to lie in the fact that for 150 years, settlement on our east coast was hemmed in by a mountain wall that extended from Maine to Alabama; that when the land was taken up in the plains and the new man and the poor man could find no place to settle, he turned to the West and Southwest, traveling by boat and by horse, with ox team or on foot, accompanied by his family and all his worldly possessions, while preceding him and following him was the cavalryman. Meeting and overcoming hardships and privations which are hardly conceivable today, giving little thought to the material gain, he has played his part in the advance of our frontier.

“Today we are dedication a monument to the ‘trooper’ – the man and the horse – exemplified in our history not only by great names of Doniphan and Kearney, Stuart and Sheridan, Harbord and Pershing and all the rest, but by the man and the boy who left the comparative comfort and safety of home and fireside to brave the rigors of a great and rugged country that his fellowman might benefit. It is my privilege to pay homage to the memory of the character symbolized by this statue – ‘The Cavalryman’ of the frontier. May his accomplishments and his fortitude be an inspiration always.

FORMER MAYOR LEA ACCEPTS MONUMENT

Tom Lea, a friend of donor Percival Henderson and a former mayor of El Paso, accepted the monument on behalf of the city. In his acceptance speech he praised the work of the sculptor, Ruiz de Rivera. Of it he said:

“As a technical performance in one of the most difficult of artistic mediums, it is superbly done, and as citizens we shall take pride in possessing here an authentic work of art. But beyond all terms of aesthetic significance, it seems to me there is a transcendent meaning for us in the figure here. It is a symbol to take to our hearts. It is the man who faced a wilderness, a New World, and conquered it. Fittingly it is the figure of a horseman. Any symbol of significance in our western heritage must include that partner of man’s enterprise here – his horse –

“The story of the western conquest will forever be the story of the horseman. The saddle seat was the throne of the frontier. My friends, may we make the stalwart figure her a symbol of our remembrance of the old West, a reminder of the bright courage, the tenacious will, the unflagging force of men who can conquer new horizons.

“There is something in my heart which reaches far beyond the monument we dedicated here today. It represents not only a monument to the cavalryman, but also a monument to a friendship which, next to a wife and family, is what makes life worth living.

“The friendship between William Harvie and Percival Henderson, who admired and loved each other and were inseparable in life, was the kind of friendship which exists between strong men, a friendship which never falters and is broken only by death.”

NEPHEW OF DONOR MAKES PRESENTATION

The monument was presented to the city by Richard Eurich, nephew of the late Mr. Henderson and executor of Mr. Henderson’s estate.

The president’s letter was sent to Irving Schwartz, member of the Scottish Rite Masonic bodies committee appointed to help select a memorial fitting to the Southwest and to the friendship of one pioneer for another.

Two troops of cavalry were drawn up about the plaza and the Seventh Cavalry Band played.

The monument was unveiled by Mrs. M.P. Schuster.

Bobby Fuller: Family, friends still question how, why

July 19, 1998

By Robert Seltzer
El Paso Times

Bobby Fuller died 32 years ago, on July 18, 1966, but to his friends and relatives, the death remains as painful and vivid as this morning's obituary section.

Fuller was found slumped in the front seat of his car, a can of gasoline by his side, outside his apartment in Hollywood.

Police concluded the death, due to inhalation of gasoline, was either a suicide or an accident.

Friends and family dispute that report, and the theories on the death are as varied as the individuals expressing them - including the theory that Fuller was murdered by an organized crime figure who became jealous because his girlfriend was attracted to the rock 'n' roller.

"There's a lot of speculation," said Rod Crosby, a friend and rival musician. "But we'll never know what really happened."

Police discovered blood and abrasions on the body, and skeptics point to that discovery as proof that the death was neither an accident nor a suicide.

"Who would pour gas on himself in a hot car?" Randy Fuller, the younger brother of the deceased rock star, asked rhetorically. "I just think he got in a bad situation that night, met the wrong dude and couldn't get out of it. I'm 99.9 percent sure that it wasn't an accident or a suicide."

Crosby agrees.

"He was not street-smart, so he did hurt himself, from the standpoint of not knowing how ugly things could be in LA," Crosby said.

"Story has it that he was having a fling with the girl of a low-level mobster. He wasn't aware of that until it was too late. My theory is that they just wanted to work him over, but things went awry. So it wasn't the result of organized crime so much as disorganized crime. ... But nothing's going to happen now, more than 30 years later. We'll just never know what really happened."

Lorraine Fuller, who was 79 when she died of a heart attack in 1989, was staying with her sons in Hollywood at the time Bobby Fuller died.

"Bobby would never have taken his own life," Randy Fuller said. "He would never have done that to my mother."

Boyd Elder, who had known Fuller since the late 1950s, was attending art school in Los Angeles when Fuller died.

"He was not self-destructive at all," said Elder, a graduate of Burges High who now lives in Valentine, Texas. "He seldom even drank. He was polite and gentlemanly, and the girls loved him. He was on his way to stardom. Whatever happened, it wasn't suicide."

The death remains shrouded in so much mystery that E, the Entertainment Channel, plans to produce a program on Fuller.

"Shooting will begin in the late fall," said Keith Fenimore, a public relations official for the cable network. "I'm not sure if they'll shoot in El Paso, and I'm not sure when it will air."