Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, May 30, 1995                   TAG: 9505300125
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: OKLAHOMA CITY                                LENGTH: Medium

WORKERS FIND 3 MORE BODIES AT BOMB SITE

The bodies were believed to be those of federal credit union workers Christy Rosas and Virginia Thompson, and Alvin Justes, a credit union regular missing since the bombing.

Firefighters had combed the rubble for more than two weeks after the April 19 bombing but had called off the search knowing that Rosas and Thompson were still buried there.

The search for their bodies was called off May 5 for fear the building's shell would collapse on the crews. The remaining structure was brought down by demolitions experts May 23.

On May 22, authorities began to suspect that Justes' body might be in the wreckage of the building.

Police had received a missing-person report on him May 15 when his landlord noticed that Justes had failed to pay his rent.

The bodies weren't immediately identified. The medical examiner's office said the remains were those of one male and two females.

Workers from a wrecking company clearing the way to the crucial section of rubble found the bodies.

The area where the bodies of Rosas and Thompson were believed to be buried had been marked and covered with protective cloth before the building was demolished.

Army friends Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols are in custody at the federal prison in El Reno in connection with the bombing, which killed 168 people and injured hundreds more. Both are charged with a federal anti-terrorism statute that carries the death penalty.

At a Memorial Day ceremony at a suburban cemetery, the names of 12 of the bombing victims were read along with a Memorial Day roll call of war dead.