European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 25, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday september 25, 1985 the stars and stripes Page 5 barmaid tailing Shorf of its $50 million goal Champaign Iii. A at j9 Mil lion so far proceeds from the All Star farm Aid Benefit concert appeared to be running Short of its j50 million goal but organizers said they would be Happy if the event Trig gered new interest in Farmers problems. By the time the 14-hour concert ended and 50 stars of country Rock and blues had left the stage Early monday barmaid had generated More than s5 million in pledges from television viewers and radio listeners. Before sunday s concert about $4 million had been pledged or received from corporate donations and ticket sales. Singer Willie Nelson had predicted it would raise$50 million. But tabulation of the pledges was incomplete. We Don t know yet How much we raised said spokeswoman Linda Lounsberry for buddy Lee attractions of Nashville tenn., the event s promoter. It May be next week before we have that she said. The barmaid Money will be used for Cash Grants to needy Farmers Legal Aid counselling and Job training a nationwide information hotline and a Campaign to in crease awareness of farm problems. Nelson will have control Over its use said his manager Dave Anderson. You can spend it Quick or spend it right Nelson told reporters. So we re not going to Rush into  he said he was not disappointed with the pledges because raising Money was Only one barmaid goal. The other objective was re minding City dwellers of their links to the heading Home Patti Frustaci carries her Ion Richard Charles the second of 3 surviving sep Tupts to be released from the Hospital at Orange Calif. The premature in Fant neighing barely 5to pounds was accompanied by nurse Cindy gathers. Aids death Camps nation s food producers. I m real Happy. It exceeded my expectations Nelson said Early monday As he left the stadium to return Home to Austin Texas. However the president of the Illinois farm Bureau criticized barmaid As a carefully orchestrated political  last night s concert was loaded with a political message the farm Bureau totally rejects said John White. The concert stage  a  durig a prime time segment of the con Cert s Nger Neil Young and actor Timothy Mutton urged viewers to pressure Congress into passing a proposed Bill sponsored by sen. Thomas Harkin a Lowa and backed by Nelson and the american agriculture movement. Among other things the Bill Calls for a referendum on whether Farmers should be ordered to take land out of crop production. The majority of american Farmers Don t want the Harkin farm Bill and we Don t appreciate a very Small group of entertain ers telling us we do White said. During the three hour prime time Seg ment when Young and Hutton made their Appeal 156 commercial television stations telecast the concert in addition to the Nashville network the Cable station that broadcast 12 of the concert s 14 hours. The show was available to about 76 Mil lion households during that Tim said Jane Dowdin Grams vice president of Gaylord synd Icom a division of inn. She expected ratings figures next week to show that about 15 million to sets were turned to barmaid during that time. File on Monroe s suicide reopened after 23 years los Angeles a Marilyn Mon Roe sounded despondent about losing her contract with 20th Century Fox when actor Peter Lawford spoke with her the Day she committed suicide More than 23 years ago according to a police file released monday. The actress who died of a drug overdose bade president Kennedy and Lawford goodbye in a slurred voice the night of her death according to the investigative file into her death. The file was released because of numer Ous Public requests for Access to the reports said police chief Daryl Gates. It included Telephone records autopsy results and police interviews with those who talked to Monroe in her final Days. Many of the pages were stamped confidential and some information was blacked out. Gates predicted release of the information would fuel speculation into Monroe s aug. 4, 1962, death. Anyone who has a mind that conjures up All kinds of things probably will write another Story. But at least we be got it out of our hair he said. There were 45 nembutal i believe barbiturates that Monroe had consumed. Gates said. There was nothing unusual about it. She was under a doctor s care and had been distressed. The evidence showed she was stressed and she took her own  according to the file Lawford who died earlier this year had told detectives that most of what was written about her final Days was pure  she sounded despondent Over her loss of close Gay Baths say . Clergymen new York up a physician has predicted that an aids vaccine will be ready for testing within two years but a group of clergymen demanded More imme Diate action the shutdown of Gay Bath houses which they called death  As the sixth Day of testimony in a Case to throw an aids afflicted 7-year-old girl out of school resumed monday in a courtroom in the City s Borough of Queens a group of about a dozen clergymen urged the City to Board up 10 Gay bathhouses. Tho clergymen marched on the St. Mark s Baths hoisting placards Reading close the Gay Baths and Stop Koch from sodomizing new York and said they will continue protesting until the Bath houses Are shut Down. It is a Paradox that in Light of the fact that new York leadership is struggling Over the question of whether to admit one 7 year old with aids to school that the bathhouses in new York which i Call aids death Camps Are allowed to oper ate unhampered and unhindered rabbi Lew Yehuda Levin said. Government officials Are trying to push aids victims into school rather than Calm ing the hysteria said Levin one of the protest organizers and a right to life Candi Date for mayor. Martin Mcginley a spokesman for the City health department said the City had no plans to shut Down bathhouses. The clergymen assert the Baths create an Environ ment for the spread of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. We re not in business to close businesses Mcginley said. The bathhouses Are not causing aids. What s going on in the bathhouses is causing  he said business at the bathhouses has declined recently and that very Well could be because of the fear of aids. In state supreme court meanwhile. Or. Donald Armstrong chief of infectious Dis eases at memorial Sloan Kettering cancer Center in Manhattan gave a new Glimmer of Hope saying an aids vaccine should be ready for testing within two years in an Effort to prevent its spread. Most top Reid searchers have been less optimistic including the National institutes of health saying it will take much longer for a vaccine to be developed. Armstrong held out Little Hope for the thousands already suffering from aids saying there was not much Chance for a cure for the disease. New York City has the nation s largest concentration of aids patients with at least 4,387 cases resulting in 2,272 deaths. Nation wide at least 13,074 people have contracted aids. More than 6.500 have died. Armstrong testified it was not dangerous for an aids afflicted child to attend classes. Contract with 20th Century Fox studios and some other personal matters Lawford said in recounting a Telephone conversation with her. Lawford tried to convince her to forget about her problems and join him and his wife. Pat for dinner that evening Detec Tives said in the report. She replied that she would consider joining them. At approximately 7 30 or 8  Law Ford telephoned her a second time to Ascer Tain Why she had t As yet arrived at his Home. Lawford stated Monroe was still very despondent and her manner of speech was slurred. She stated she was tired and would not be coming her voice became less and less audible and Lawford began to yell at her in an attempt to revive her. Then she slated say goodbye to Pat say goodbye to Jack Kennedy and say goodbye to yourself because you re a Nice Guy the report said. The phone then went dead. Although police records of the Case were destroyed 12 years ago copies of the investigation were found in the private archives of chief of detectives Thad Brown who died in 1970. Sands of time in the stars and stripes 40 years ago today sept. 25, 1945 selective service de Creed that veterans with re employment rights Are not. Required to join a Union to get their jobs Back. The Agency also said that during the year in which a Veteran is guaranteed his old Job his rights take Prece Dence Over any system of seniority. 30 years ago foday. Sept. 25, 1955 president Eisenhower was stricken with a mild heart attack and has been hospitalized said Murray Snyder White House press Secretary in a special news conference. 20 years ago foday. Sept. 25, 1965 president Johnson announced . Agreement with Panama to abolish the 1903 canal treaty and Complete a new pact that will effectively recognize Panama s sovereignty Over the canal zone. 10 years ago foday. Sept. 25, 1975 president Ford heeded a Spur of the moment request from the secret service not to plunge into a crowd outside a hotel in san Francisco seconds before a woman fired a pistol shot at him a White House spokesman said