European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 29, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes wednesday october 29.1988 priest fired for Gay views admits he is homosexual St. Cloud Minn. A a Romanc Paholk priest fired for criticizing the Church s stand against homosexuality has publicly admitted being Gay. The Rev. William Dorn jr., 34, said he knew he was Gay As Long As 1 can  in a Story monday in the is. Paul Pioneer press and dispatch he said As a publicly Gay priest. I would never have gotten a Job. I Felt i could be More effective in this Church by not making Public statements about  Bishop George Speltz of the is. Cloud diocese fired Dorn three weeks ago from his Job As co director of the Christ Church Newman Center at St. Cloud stale University and As adviser to a Campus Gay and lesbian support group. The Bishop look the action after Dor wrote an article for a diocesan newspaper criticizing the Church s attitude toward homosexuals. Cuomo leading . Race for governor poll says Albany . A gov. Mario Cuomo has an almost 50 percentage Point Lead Over Republican challenger Andrew o Rourke according to results of an Independent poll made Public monday. The Marisi College Institute for Public opinion said Tinl of those surveyed Cuomo was lie Choice of 67.9 percent while Rourke was favored by 18.1 percent. Right to life party candidate Denis Dillon the Nassau county District attorney was the Choice of 1.9 percent while 12.1 percent said they were undecided. Meanwhile in the Senate contest in new York 56.2 percent of those surveyed said the favored Republican incumbent Alfonso in Amato while 28.8 percent said they backed Democrat Mark Green. Liberal party candidate John Dyson who slopped Active campaigning and declared his support for Green was the Choice of 3.5 per cent while 11,6 percent were undecided lower prices mortgages increase sales of Homes Washington apr sales of existing Homes bolstered by falling Home prices and Low mortgage Rales climbed 4.4 percent in september to the highest rate in seven years a real estate Trade group reported monday. Existing single family Homes were sold at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.77 Mil lion units last month up from an August sales Pace of 3.61 million units according to the monthly Survey by the National association of realtors. The median sales Price for existing Homes dropped $1,200 from August to september the third decline in the past four months. The Survey found the median Price was $79,700 last month Down 4.2 percent from the High Point this year of j83.200 in May. Appt Koto Randy Welch settles Down for the evening it the aids Vigil near the old Federal building in san unmet so. Protesters Mark 1 St anniversary of aids Vigil in san Francisco san Francisco a a March through Down town monday marked the first anniversary of a Vigil that began when aids patients and  chained themselves to the door of the old Federal building in a demand for More Federal Money to fight the lethal disease. See related stories Page 9. The March ended at the bedraggled tent City where for the past year protesters have endured rain Winter cold physical attacks verbal insults and a Lack of Toi lets and showers. One of the protesters 38-year-old Jay Youn died of aids last february. It s been Tough but we be managed said Bonni Mcdonald a grandmother who has lived at the tent City with her husband since May. We be evolved into i think something pretty Good. We be continued to do what we can do which is to reach out to  about 30 people Are volunteers at the Vigil site on a strip of crass in a Plaza beside the Federal building. About is people including about a dozen who have aids or aids related Complex live in the four tents All or pan of the time. Aids victim Jan Beck joined the Vigi on its third Day. The former stage and film actor acts As political coordinator and has lobbied in Sacramento even though he s confined to a wheelchair. I be done about the Only thing a retired actor can do and that s go into politics he joked. Beck 40, had been diagnosed As having aids re lated Complex or arc when he joined the Vigil. Last december he suffered a stroke that crippled his  he was in the Hospital he was diagnosed As having acquired immune deficiency syndrome and his doctors gave him 60 Days to live. Every Day past 60 Days is a Victory he said. I consider myself an aids Victor not an aids victim. You can t have it both ways. You can t be bus i iving and Busy dying Althe same  there is no known cure for aids which Rob the body of its natural defences and makes the victim susceptible to a wide Range of diseases. He said he will take a petition bearing about 73,000 signatures collected from residents and tourists at the Vigil s information table. The petition asks the government to spend $500 million annually to cure aids. About $224 million was approved by Congress for 1986. Recognize that people with arc can be As debilitated As aids victims and allow them benefits such As medicare and social Security disability insurance. Nearly 26,000 people have been diagnosed As having aids and some estimate that possibly 10 times that Many have arc. Bedevilled family s ghostly guests flit to other haunts West Pittston a. Ut1 with halloween creeping up the demons that bedevilled the Smurl Home in West Pittston and turned the lives of their hosts into a Nightmare apparently have fled to other haunts the family said monday. Jack and Janet Smurl and their four daughters credited prayer with ridding them of the demonic Force that had transformed their modest Chase Street Home into a duplex of the damned. For those who have Faith no explanation is Nec Essary. For those who do not no explanation is Possi ble the family said in a statement. The smurfs went Public with their horrific tale in August saving they were desperate for help to banish the demons that moved into their Home two years ago. Family members claimed they had been scratched slapped and dragged from bed by unseen hands. Shadowy apparitions moved through the House and the family  pigs grunting and Hoo Beals along the Walls. Strange doors filled closed rooms family Mem Bers claimed it s like a different Home now. We re not afraid to go 10 sleep at  said Janet Smurl 39. Even the air in the House is much lighter now. It s hard to explain but there is a  the statement released by the smurfs four Days before halloween said for several weeks All has been quiet in their Home and it would appear their problem has been resolved. However Only time will  the family believe the elimination of their problem can Only be credited to the intercession of the most blessed Virgin Mary so Michael the archangel and the sacred heart of Jesus who have answered to fair prayers and the prayers of thousands of others through he  the family was convinced by people possessing a Faith much greater than heirs that the Power of the Rosary would be their Only salvation and in was with out question the statement said. The family s claims Drew an army of reporters psychic researcher and the merely curious la the quiet neighbourhood. Weary of the attention and facing in creasing scepticism the Smuilis finally withdrew from the Public Eye. The roman Catholic diocese of Scranton will stay in touch with the family but plans no other fiction said the Rev. Gerald Mullally diocesan Chancellor. The diocese had been investigating to determine whether an exorcism was necessary. A Pricert spent several nights in the Smurl Home but Mullay  say what if any supernatural activity was observed