European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and stripes thursday september 12, 1985 oho schools to Otter aids prevention course Columbus Ohio a slate he ally officials arc devising a course to teach Public school students about aids and How to avoid it. A draft of the proposed course for sex education and health classes will be ready by the end of inc month. Or. Thomas j. Halm chief of the Ohio health depart ment s Bureau of preventive Medicine said. He said he expects the number of aids cases in Ohio to double by next year and the state wants to use Junior High school and High school classes for an education program designed to slow the spread of the disease. Forty two aids cases were reported in Ohio through sept. I. Compared with 46 in All of 1984, said Halpin. Philosophically i Don t View this course As the abcs of How not to get aids Halpin said. It s really an Effort to strip away some of the mystery of the disease to show that it is an infectious process and to emphasize  he said it is important to understand aids so its victims can be treated Wilh compassion rather than  he said the department wants to counteract a misconception that aids afflicts Only homosexual men. The disease is most Likely to strike homosexuals abusers of inject table drugs and Haemophiliacs and i can apparently be spread by sexual Contact contaminated Needles and blood transfusions but not by casual Contact. The idea is that we re in for a Long haul on the aids problem said Halpin. By making education available on a Basic level that s going to be valuable in this Long  Halpin said male and female students should be taught about aids. Although about 80 percent of Ohio s victims have been homosexual men officials think More women might be infected As the outbreak continues. State he ally officials believe Ohio is the first state to try to develop an aids prevention class for schools. Health officials have been working with state depart ment of education representatives on a course that Hal pin said is being designed to make it As least controversial As  he said he Hopes that a school District will offer the course to Young adolescents in a Pilot program by Jan uary 1986, and that the course will be offered through out inc Public schools by Spring. Aids is caused by a virus that impairs the body s ability to fend off normally harmless infections which then become potentially fatal conditions. The virus is present in the blood semen and saliva of people who have aids. Senate tables Helms school prayer Bill by 62-36 vote Washington a sen. Jesse Helms , says the evangelical move or tit will publicize the names of senators who Defeated a school prayer Bill but one of those lawmakers contends the Public does t want government deciding religious matters. By a 62-36 vote tuesday the Senate tabled the Helms sponsored Bill that would have prohibited the supreme court and lower Federal courts from deciding cases on voluntary prayer Bible Reading or religious meetings in Public schools. Prior to the vote sen. Barry Goldwater r-ariz., one of the Senate s leading conservatives told Helms if i would have written the Bill i would be ashamed of  Helms who said the Constitution gives Congress the Power to limit jurisdiction of the courts responded i m not ashamed of  the vote most Likely killed the legis lation although a proposed constitutional amendment to allow voluntary silent prayer in Public schools is before the Senate Judic iary committee. Helms said he brought the Bill to the Hoor to get a Roll Call vote adding "1 imag Ine people in the evangelical movement Are going to be willing to circulate  but sen. Lowell Weicker r-conn., who offered the tabling motion said of the school prayer Issue the More times it s voted on the More times television preach ers talk about what Congress ought to do or do kids Are definitely less fit than in 60s, doctor says Chicago a America s adults sports More than 25 years ago. The More people realize it s these people who bring government into religion and they Don t want  the supreme court ruled in 1962 that organized prayer in Public schools is unconstitutional and said last june that even silent meditation is unlawful if students Are told they have the option of prayer during that period. Goldwater told Helms during a Brief de Bate that the Bill was unconstitutional. You re beginning to get into areas now that s none of our business Goldwater said. In Arizona Goldwater said there Are Indian tribes that to  in legends in the stars and in gods in the Forest. You should t Tell anyone How to Pray he said. Helms agreed with critics that die government should not promote religion but contended his Bill would not do that. Instead he said the legislation would place the Issue in the hands of the individual states where it was before the. Origi Nal supreme court ruling. Sen. Paul Simon Dell an opponent of the Bill said there Are things the govern ment is Good at and areas the government it not Good at. We have to be very careful about entanglement of government and Reli Gion. We do not want government running religion. We do not want religion running the  May be getting physical but kids arc definitely less fit today than they were in the 1960s, says an official of the american Academy of paediatrics. The fathers Are jogging running up and Down the streets at night. But the boy is sitting Home watching television said or. Paul Dyment the chairman of the Aap i committee on sports Medicine. As Many As one third of All children Over age 12 have elevated Levels of blood Choles Terol which Are associated with a higher risk of heart attack Dyment said. Also a three year National children and youth fitness study from the . Public health service released earlier this year found that 8,800 boys and girls studied were significantly fatter than those studied in the 1960s, he noted. The evidence is yes kids Are definitely less fit today " Dyment said. Numerous studies indicate . Young sters performances on various physical endurance tests have declined Over the past decade he said despite the creation of the president s Council on physical fitness and sport Only 10 percent of our children can qualify for the presidential fitness award and in at least one state the figure a to 2 percent said Dyment referring to an award Given to youngsters who score Well in various physical tests. The Low ranking state is Oklahoma he said. The worry right now is that with tighter Money for education physical education programs probably will be the first to go said Dyment the  of paediatrics and adolescent Medicine at the Cleveland clinic foundation. When asked about the superiority at All age Levels of today s athletic performances Over those in past years Dyment said such performances Are produced by Only a few. The elite athlete is getting better and better he said. A few people Are getting better and better. But most people Are get Ting worse and  the Academy said in a news release that it has sent a self appraisal checklist for health supervision in school athletic pro Grams to 24,000 athletic directors in the United states. Health officials senators clash on cigarette tax Washington up health sex pens support legislation to continue or in crease the current 16-Cenl-a-pack cigarette tax to deter people from taking up smok ing but senators from tobacco growing states say higher taxes will Hurt Farmers. Unless Congress acts the current cigarette tax will drop to 8 cents a pack on oct. I. The House ways and Means committee has approved legislation to both continue the current 16-Ccnt tax on a pack of cigarettes and use one cent of that tax to help tobacco Farmers. The Senate finance committee is considering two Bills to keep the tax at 16 cents indefinitely and one Bill to double it to 32 cents a pack. One 16-cent Bill would give half the Revenue to medicare and the other would allocate half the Money for a disease prevention program at the state level. The 32-cent-a-pack tax Bill would also Send half its Revenue to medicare. A committee spokesman said no Date has been set to consider the Bills. Or. M. Roy Schwartz speaking for the american medical association said americans Are less Likely to smoke and suffer film smoking related diseases such As lung cancer if the Price of cigarette stays High. When Benjamin Franklin wrote that nothing in this world is certain but death and taxes he spoke of their certainty of existence and their  said in a statement he was not referring to the association of one with  Schwartz said that when the cigarette tax was raised in 1982, cigarette smoking fell by 5 percent especially among Young people. In human terms reduction in the consumption of tobacco result in fewer in stances of smoking related disease he said. But sen. Jesse Helms , said the 16-cent cigarette tax has taken a toll in terms of sales jobs and payrolls. A regressive excise tax like the cigarette tax raises the Price disproportionately for those in the lower income  tragic news ends woman s 10-year search for father Appleton. Wis. A a West Virginia woman s 10-year search for her father ended when she Learned that be died last week in the Midwest express airline crash near Milwaukee. Debbie Wolfe who said she last saw her father when the was 7, is planning to travel to no nah wis., to meet Bis family including a half brother and half sister she did t know she had. I Haven t had the Opportunity to Deal with this emotionally Wolfe said. It s not real to me on an emotional level. He never knew about All my accomplishments and my successes that i m married and i m Happy and that he had a grandson. I just think it would have brought him some Joy to know  John Connolly was one of 31 people killed in the crash on Friday. Wolfe contacted the family after seeing the name on Alist of victims. Wolfe 28, was a miss America finalist in 1980 and themes. America Winner in 1984. We were watching her and did t even know it said Brenda Connolly Connolly s sex wife. The Only tragic thing was he never knew ail the great stuff she did we talked to her for the first time saturday night by Tele phone. Wolfe who lives in Huntington. Said she had always hoped her father would Call one Day and say he was sorry he had t come  i never really gave up on him Wolfe said it was just that we really did t have much to go  mrs Connolly said Wolfe told her that she last Taw Connolly when she was 7 years old and began looking for him when she was a . Connolly 50. Was flying Home to Memphis tenn., where he was a Pilot for Atlantic Southeast airline. That s All he wanted to  mrs. Conc id. If Hewan t Hying he was t  the Connolly were divorced in 1982. Neither mrs. Connolly nor Wolfe would disclose an information about Wolfe s Mother. Any