European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - October 31, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes Friday october 31.1986 major spending urged to curtail aids increase Washington a scientists who predict a nearly tenfold increase in aids cases in the United slates in five Acari thursday Iii a recommended multimillion Tollar program May keep the disease from spreading even More rapidly. Drs Sheldon Wolff and David Baltimore co chair men of a National science foundation study released wednesday said in separate interviews a Frank approach to Public education about acquired immune deficiency syndrome is needed the study on the increasing problem of aids said Federal programs to Cope with the disease Are woeful a  the study also said a Public health catastrophe is imminent. It recommends $2 billion be spent annually by 1990, half on Public education and half on research. We do not believe that the types of euphemisms used in the past to prevent offending someone s sensibilities were appropriate Wolff said in an interview thursday on the lbs morning  he said in is Loo late to affect the increase in aids cases projected at half a million by the end of 1991 because All of the individuals who will have tie Dis ease by Hen Are already  Baltimore a Nobel laureate interviewed on abcs today show said potential aids victims have to be educated to avoid sexual Contact in situations that Are ambiguous 10 use condoms to prevent Transfer of the aids virus and nol to share Needles for drug inject , a viral disease that destroys the body s immune system and leaves victims vulnerable to fatal infections has been diagnosed in More than 26,000 americans  whom have died. About 70 percent of the victims Are male homosexuals. Other High risk groups include intravenous drug abusers their sexual partners and the infants of infected mothers. Baltimore said aids victims still include a Small percentage of heterosexuals about 1.100 cases today but the percentage has been increasing. He said that even if an effective vaccine were devel oped today it would be longer than five years before it could be brought to the Market. He said an effective therapy May be developed sooner but no Safe one is in sight. The scientists estimate in addition to the $2 billion recommended for education and research Licalzi care for aids victims will Cost s8 billion to $16 billion annually by the end of the decade. Sole survivor Aptola Lucky a month did Lille cuddles a Blanket while being treated at an animal Hospital in Spring Valley Calif. She was abandoned along Ullh three other Kittens in a cardboard Box outside a Bank in Humana. Suspecting foul play the san Diego cd qty sheriffs department exploded the Box and Only Lucky survived. She has be ii adapted by a cat Loving Mem Ber of the bomb squad. Cougars prompt Park restrictions Santa Ana Calif. A Orange county super visors have barred children from the trails and Camp grounds of a wilderness Park following Cougar attacks on two youngsters. Adults will be required to travel in groups of two or More when hiking in the Ronald w. Caspers Wilder Ness regional Park and will be required to get a free permit giving rangers a Chance to warn them of the presence of the cougars. Children will be allowed to use the Park s picnic grounds when they Are under adult supervision. The supervisors on wednesday also endorsed a recommendation from the county environmental management Agency to keep the Park closed until Jan. 2 while rangers and wildlife biologists try to count and study the behaviour of the Park s cougars also called Mountain Lions or pumas. The Park which is 60 Miles Southeast of los Angeles and is visited by an estimated 5,000 people a month was the scene of the slate s first Mountain lion attack in decades the March 23 mauling of 5-year-Otd Laura Michelle Small of Al Tore. Laura survived the attack but remains partially paralysed and Blind in one Eye. On oct. 19, 6-year-old Justin Mellon of Huntington Beach was dragged from 0 Trail by a Cougar thai took his head in its jaws. He is recovering from injuries that required 100 stitches. Lee Fitzhugh a Mountain lion specialist at the University of California at Davis said the Lions Nuy react to the High pitched noises and Jerky movements of children. Studies show predatory cats an stimulated to attack by certain movements particularly by objects or animals darting across their line of sight or away Fromi hem. An adult has a Good Chance of slopping an attack Fitzhugh said by standing his ground and shouting. Stateside Driver gets Quick trip to jail after faring Well fort Lee no. A a 20-Yrar-Oid Man allegedly stole a bus and drove in several times from new Jersey to new York City collecting in fares from people appear Cully unaware they were ending in a stolen vehicle. Steven p. Reynold was arrested in this Northern new Jersey Community after a supervisor for a com cling bus line noticed that the vehicle owned by Academy bus Tours inc. In Hoboken was at a terminal in Northern Manhattan sgt. Pele Canlima of the port authority of new York and new Jersey police said wednesday. _ read my does t come up to this terminal Cali Reynolds allegedly stole the bus in Hoboken handmade several trips from the port authority bus Termi Nal in Washington height across the George washing ton Bridge to fort Lee said Cantila. Woman gives $1 million for scholarship fund Burlington it a a woman who has never set foot in Vermont s largest City has established a s1 million Trust fund to offer scholarship to students at Burlington High  gift from Barbara Gauntlet a a wealthy Ameri can living in Switzerland came As a Complete Surprise to school  to lilt s lawyer Christopher Stoneman was m Strumental in arranging the  said gaunt Tell who has lived in Switzerland for about 20 years has donated Money to other causes but never to . Gauntlet wanted to do something for Young people Stoneman said he said the two considered several cities including new York where he once lived but decided on Bur Lington partly because i know a Little bit about it. And partly because i live  ammonia leak forces evacuation in Minnesota Waterville Minn. A about 800 people were evacuated from heir Homes in this tiny Southern Minnes Sta town wednesday night after ammonia leaked from a fertilizer Plant police said. No injuries were reported in he evacuation or from the leak of anhydrous ammonia said police dispatcher ruin Kramer the cause of the leak from a tank at the four county agricultural fertilizer Plant was nol known she  leak occurred about 9 to p.m., said Kramer add ing she believed it had stopped by late wednesday night. It s so bad they can t get in there to Check she said. Pileup of 11 vehicles snarls san Diego freeway los Angeles a eleven vehicles smashed int each other on he san Diego freeway wednesday after an Ift wheel truck s brakes failed injuring nine people an backing up traffic for nearly eight noun police said two tractor trailer Rig eight cars and a Molocy Deere involved in the pileup about is Miles West of Down town los Angeles said Highway patrol officer Joe  Accident closed northbound lanes of interstate 40s just South of the Hollywood freeway until 10 the truck swerved across five lanes As its Driver tried to slow Down hit the motorcycle then pinned Acar against an embankment trapping a ipod tons for an hour said police officer Colin Patrick. Owner of topless garage welcomes now protests Des Moines Iowa up the National organization for women says the new Boob and lube garage with topless mechanics is exploitation but the owner likes their protests and says the publicity can Only help his  re Gonna make me Rich proprietor Farrell Lafon yelled to about so local now members carrying signs in front of Darrel s grease and go near Down town Dei  says the topless Boob and lube service the garage offers is a shameless exploitation of women.1 Lafon who Tost month hired two women to vacuum and clean can while topless said busing to at his once struggling garage Hai increased by More than 50 per Ceni Smice the s24.s8 topless service  is saying it s not within the Law i now official said. We Don t Ted there an that Many people who want to come to a business like this