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All Praying. Hotels that cater to the area's unfortunates are keeping their doors locked 24 hours a day. A sign at the Pickwick Hotel advises, NO VISITERS ALLOWED NO MORE. At the mission, Jack McCarty, 50, shuddered: "A lot of the guys are sticking around here even during the day, talking about him all the time." Says the mission chaplain, George Caywood: "Everybody is looking at everybody else. We're all praying the Lord will help the police. These men are our friends. It really grieves us to see them so frightened." But no one could offer them any reason to hope that the Skid Row Slasher would not strike again.