European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday. March 15. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 aids hot lines deluged by heterosexuals los Angeles a aids testing centers an hot lines in several cities Are being swamped by heterosexuals who fear they have been exposed to the deadly disease Public health officials said Friday. Although in the United slates aids is Slijk mainly confined to male homosexuals Haemophiliacs and intravenous drug abusers health officials in several cities cited an increasing trend of heterosexuals seek ing tests and  officials Here and in Long Beach Atlanta san Francisco Boston and Florida said the trend May be the result of stepped up education programs and wide publicity about Liberace and other victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome one said taking a lest has become the social thing to  calling now Are primarily heterosexual Many of them women Many of them mothers Eric Rofes director of the Gay and lesbian Community services Center in Hollywood said Friday of the 586 people tested in february at the county s Only free testing clinic less than half or 278,identified themselves Ai Gay or bisexual. On thursday the Center got 132 Call from people who Laid they had trouble getting through. Those who did will be tested May it in person we be turned away More than 100 people in the last week and a half. On the phone we be discouraged 300 to 400 people said or Michael brows coordinator for a Long Beach testing clinic we re swamped Here on the phones said the executive director of the Boston aids action com Mittee Larry Kissler. For february we had More than 4,000 Calls 3,000 were asking about the test. It s a whole different scenario because 80 percent were Calls from heterosexuals highly anxious peo  could not pinpoint a reason but noted that last month there were stories in magazines newspapers and on television about heterosexuals contracting aids. A positive aids lest indicates the presence of aids antibodies which Means the person tested has been exposed to the aids Sims. In does not mean the person has aids but scientists think about 10 percent to 30 percent of those with a positive test eventually will develop aids. Those who carry the virus can transmit the disease to others even if they do not gel sick scientists say at least �0 percent of people with a positive antibody est carry the virus although heterosexuals have not been extensively affected by the disease in the United states and Europe . Health officials have warned that the Dis ease is beginning to enter the general population. An estimated i million to 1,5 million american shave been infected with the aids virus. Of that total 20 percent to 30 percent Are expected develop 2 More teen agers die i Alsip Iii a two Young women one holding it Rose and a stuffed animal the other holding a photo album were found dead in a garage apparently Vic Tims of the same method of suicide used Fay four teen agers in new Jersey police said  of the notes that the women left mentioned the suicides a Day earlier in new Jersey but Alsi police chief Warner Huston said he thought the two Young women had heard about it and that the Public Ity surrounding that incident probably gave them the impetus to Kiu  Grannan 19, and Karen Logan 17, de scribed As Best friends had been neighbors and class mates. Both had dropped out of school and recently quit their jobs authorities said Grannan s brother James Davis said he Felt his sister probably was influenced by the new Jersey  showed them How they could do it painlessly Davis said. For the last few Days they have Bee planning this  the notes at the scene indicated the women had been depressed Grannan Over her failed marriage and Logan Over concern that she had made a mess of her life Hauhe had disappointed her parents Huston said. If i told you i was going to kill myself you would thave understood said a note from Grannan to her estranged husband Gary. It was signed love  bodies were found thursday in the front Seal of Grannan s car in the Logan garage Huston said. Gas fume bad entered the Home and sided two cats and a dog. Logan was holding a stuffed animal and Rose and death pact suicides among . Teen agers  Chewton to Mutt Tor 78 70 and  their bodies were found Huston  sealed envelopes to friends and relatives were found on the dashboard of the car and two notes were stuck under the Windshield while a wedding photo graph and numerous photo albums were in the backseat the police chief said the Alsip suicides prompted a warning from a Chi Cago psychiatrist who specializes in the mental health  Media should be very cautious of its coverage of teen suicides in new Jersey and illinois.1 said  offer of Michael Reese Hospital. Preliminary studies show that the increased coverage of suicides in Crow tribe fires Watt Billings Mont. Dpi the Crow indians have fired former Interior Secre tary James Watt As their attorney be cause they say he is taking the Federal government s Side in the tribe s $130million claim in a Boundary dispute. He said the United states has take Good Core of the Crow tribe the Crow tribe knows better said attorney Jean ear Crane who was sworn in thursday As the tribe s new  chairman Richard real Bird said he sent wait a Teller giving him 30days notice that his contract with the tribe was being  was hired in 1935 to represent the tribe in a $130 million suit claiming there was a Surveyor s mistake when the boundaries of the Crow reservation i Montana were established in 1868. The mass Media directly relates to further increases of new suicides the four new Jersey teen agers died wednesday after Locking themselves in an idling car in a Bergen Field apartment Complex garage authorities  wakes were held Friday for three of them Thomas Otton 19, and Lisa and Cheryl Bun Ess. 17and 18, and separate funerals were scheduled for sat urday morning. Another service was scheduled Mon Day for the fourth youth Thomas Lzzo 19. The teen agers had asked in a suicide note thai Hebe buried together. A police statement called the at sip deaths apparent multiple  Huston said the women apparently Hod been thinking about lolling themselves for some  Fawley a neighbor said she noticed Grannan drive her car into the Logan garage thursday about 11a.m., four hours before the bodies were found. It just was an Odd thing when she lives across the Street Fawley said Fawley said her son Blair is ran to help after the teen agers bodies Wen found by Logan s15-year-old sister Melanie. Melanie came running Over Here because she had Tittle Kitty in her hands that was almost dead she said she was hysterical Logan had quit her Job at a fast food restaurant about two weeks ago Fawley said while Grannan Quither waitressing Job at Crawford Square restaurant in Alsip about a week ago. She was Nice quiet Shedin t bother anybody said restaurant manager Mike Hernandez adding that there wits no indication Gran Nan was Overly upset or depressed. Amnesia victim does f know parents Little Rock Ark. A mar Lin Timothy Jamil saw his parents for the first time in weeks but cried be cause he did t recognize them. Jarry it 27. Appeared wednesday a Baptist medical Center and said he had amnesia Hospital official  identity was Learned when friends called his family in Hickory Ridge about90 Miles away and said they had seen his picture in a newspaper Jarry it told Hospital staff members he was glad to Leam his name and to know that he had a Home then cried when his parents came into his Roo Friday because he did t know them said Lyndon Finney spokeswoman for Baptist medical system a Hospital spokesman said Jarrett was admitted to the Hospital Friday for observation and treatment. He Hod been staying at the Hospital s guest hotel while authorities searched foursome clue to his identity. Two weeks ago Jarrett borrowed his Mother s car and some Money and left Hickory Ridge for Little Rock to Loo for a Job said his father Timothy Jar  younger Jarrett sold the car in Little Rock last week. He told Hospital employees he had been picked up by a truck Driver in Lawton okla., an dropped off at the Hospital. But Little Rock police said they had evidence that indicated Jarrell had spent Friday and sunday night in different Littlerock motels. Finney said Jarry it s parents lol Dhim their son had not been mentally Well since the breakup of his marriage nine months Apo and had at one time sought professional help from a Mem Phis tenn., Hospital and a West Mem Phis Ark  s something wrong with him i know there s something wrong wit him but i Don t know what Jarrett s father a  Baptist medical Center staff members who dealt with Marlin Jar Rcpt said he had been polite cooperative and willing to submit to to cols Becky Porter a staff clinical psychologist said amnesia is rare but i usually at least partially curable. There was no evidence of a physical cause for jarred s amnesia Porter said adding thai menial trauma was possibility