European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 13, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday september 13, 1985 blood donors due for Shock after aids test in California stateside san Francisco a hundreds of californians will be getting some bad news in the next few months they la be told the blood they donated has traces of the deadly aids virus. It will be a Shock to some. Actually it will be a Shock to  Richard Fox of the California department of health aids unit said wednesday. Some however will have expected  blood Bank officials Are preparing for the difficult task of telling about 600 donors that recently instituted tests of blood show they have been exposed to aids. We notify individuals All the time about ailments found while testing their blood but this one has a lot mor fear and fright in it said Brian Mcdonough the executive director of Irwin memorial blood Bank. Blood Banks throughout the state began testing donors for signs of aids last March. However because state officials did not want people in High risk groups mainly homosexual men and intravenous drug users donating blood simply to get the test they placed a temporary ban on the disclosure of the results. Blood Banks were barred from releasing results until the area had an alternate aids lest Center Fox said. We re creating greater evils if we do not notify them. They Are infectious they Are spreading the disease and worst yet they May be  or. Paul Thompson red Cross medical director in the los Angeles and Orange county area said about 5 per cent to 10 percent of the people who test positively for aids antibodies will develop the disease and die. Because it can take aids victims years to develop symptoms state officials acknowledge that Many people who tested positively on the examinations will live in fear that they have the deadly disease. I m sure there la be some degree of anxiety in people receiving such news said Thompson adding that receiving a positive test for aids does not mean that the person has the  Mcdonough said there is certainly some anxiety in informing donors. But my biggest concern is the reaction of the donor s previous recipient. They have no clue that they have had any Contact with the aids  Irwin will be determining whether the infected person donated blood in the past and then will locate patients who received that blood he said. Voc the next two years Irwin expects to Tell about 500 blood recipients that trans fusions they received some in lifesaving instances May have been tainted. Aids or acquired immune deft nay syndrome attacks the body s immune system until it can no longer resist disease. The virus is most commonly spread by some types of sexual Contact contaminated Needles and blood transfusions. There is no known cure. Loving hug schools Tell worried parents risk of aids infection is Zero Swansea. Mass. A hundreds of worried parents were told the risk is Zero that their children would be infected by an aids stricken eighth grader but Many remained afraid of the deadly disease and angry at school officials. Meanwhile in new York City a Boycott entered its third Day thursday As parents keep their children out of school in two districts protesting the admission of a Juve Nile aids victim. It s a deadly disease and i want to find out if they re going to guarantee my kid s safety Len Cabral whose son attends Joseph Case Junior High school said during a meeting Here wednesday. I want to be sure my kid in t going to get it or that kid in t coming to school. You Ain t going to have a kid going around with a match and a gallon of Gas. That s what this looks like to me. Your kids Don t live with this they die with  Ca bral added to the applause of the crowd. Slate health officials and school officials however sought to dispel the fears of parents and their anger Over the decision to allow the eighth grader to attend school unannounced since aug. 27. The youth who has not been identified contracted aids while being treated for Haemophilia. I still believe that if people Are informed most of the time they la do the right thing said superintendent John e. Mccarthy. And in this Case it s to keep their children in school and support the continuance of this student in a school  or. George f. Grady assistant commissioner of the state depart Cut of Public health repeatedly assured the parents that the risk is Zero that their children would catch aids through Contact with the boy. But several parents accused him of sidestepping when he declined to guarantee their children would not be stricken with acquired immune deficiency syndrome which affects about 12,000 americans mostly homosexual men and intravenous drug users. Despite Calls from parents and teachers education and health officials have refused to bar the student from the school which has 625 students. Massachusetts has adopted a policy allowing children with aids to remain in school if they do not Nave open sores or behaviour traits that increase chances of transmission. Such traits include biting and the inability to control their bowels. I think it is a proud thing to take this stand and let him attend said Jody Donnelly. If i thought my son was in jeopardy. I would t put my beloved son in that  my daughter is in his classes. And i kept her Home from school the next Day when i found out said Marie Gregory. I m still nervous concerned but the experts say we Don t have to worry. I m Here to make  Mccarthy said attendance had been Normal since the boy s ailment was revealed last week but several parents had made known their intentions to keep their children out of school As Long As the boy remains. Meanwhile in the two new York City districts Atten dance increased to More than 80 percent on wednesday officials said. On tuesday 77 percent attended classes while 74 percent were in school monday the first Day. The Normal citywide attendance average is 89 percent. There s a return of children on a daily basis said Chancellor Nathan Quinonis who also disclosed that eight school employees who took medical leave in the last academic year had aids and that three have died. The eight run the Gamut of school jobs from class room to administrative and service work and one had worked in food services he said. The five surviving workers can return Only if they arc certified disease free he said. The Board of education has no information that any current employee now working in the system is suffering from aids he added. Quinonis said there Are about 100,000 employees of the new York school  of the new York Community school boards has gone to court to have the aids child removed from school or have him identified. A hearing was scheduled thursday in state supreme court in the Borough of quins. In Carmel calif., school officials said that an 8-year-old aids victim would be taught at Home while a Community education program is created. The child should be Back in class some time in november the officials said. Liverpool bom Ictor Mark Mcginn and is co Star Kim Maori portraying John Lennon and Yoko oho hug each other during filming in new York of the Abc to movie John and Yoko a lore  lottery numbers finally came up but guess who forgot to bet pm Saginaw. Mich. A Paul Kucher says he bet the numbers 6-7-8 nearly every Day for nine years in Michigan s daily lottery game. So friends and family called to congratulate him when the numbers finally were picked in the game drawn daily. But when Kucher a Saginaw Gas station operator and lottery dealer himself reached into his private lottery ticket hideaway he discovered he d forgotten to bet his num Bers. I just Plain forgot he said. Everyone s been razing me. I must have been distracted by an Early customer Ana did t buy tickets for  Kucher said he s missed betting his numbers Only 20 times in nine years and usually buys is 5 to $30 a Day. Unfortunately 678 never came in he said. Ill bet i be invested $25,000 on that  each winning ticket paid $500. New los Angeles archbishop Calls for help for the poor los Angeles Dpi archbishop Roger Mahony taking control of the nation s largest Catholic diocese urged his listeners to get off the City s famed freeway to find and help the poor. In a Blunt Sermon during an elaborate ceremony at St Vibiana s Cathedral Mahony extolled the City s charms but bemoaned the shame of its sins such As abortion the arms race and pornography and violence in the entertainment Industry. Mahony the nation s youngest archbishop at 49, noted that freeways typify this City As the aqueducts do Rome but he complained that the often elevated roadways allow residents to drive right Over the poor on the Street below. Mahony said too Many never see Watts or our Black Brothers and Sisters still struggling to be accorded Basic human dignity and Opportunity or never notice the crowds of youth by the liquor stores and the old me shuffling through the  Bush understands parents fears about aids san Francisco a vice presi Dent George Bush says he understands the concerns of parents who fear sending their children to school with victims of aids calling the deadly disease a critical Eide  if i had a child and actually thought or had reason to believe the child would get a disease that i guess heretofore had teen fatal i d be concerned he said in an inter View published in thursday s san Francisco chronicle. It is a critical epidemic and it has a fear Factor for the average person out there that we re seeing manifested in these school things he said. A group of homosexuals picketed Bush at a dinner wednesday night saying president Reagan and Bush have sidestepped Dis cussing aids. I just Hope that people Don t think a Lack of statements is equated with a Lack of concern the vice president said. I m be Hind our program of research until we know More about it. I would readily speak out again to Indis Criminate sexual practices that risk spread ing something of this nature but i want to be sure what the research reveals bus said. He was asked if he wanted to avoid Dis cussing the moral implications of acquired immune deficiency syndrome which effects about 12,000 americans mostly homosexual men. You got it Bush answered