European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pegs 6 the stars and stripes wednesday april 8,1987 putting up barriers to kids with aids Bop says Philadelphia a the estimated 3,000 Chil Dren who will have aids by 1991 face an invisible Barrier to facial and Public health services As Well abandonment by their own families. Surgeon general g Everett Koop said monday. In a speech opening three Day conference on aids in children Koop criticized those who he said would deny the growing number of children with acquire immune deficiency syndrome a Normal and dignified life As of Tail week there were 471 cases of aids re ported among children under 13, Koop said. As Many As 2,000 other children Are reported to have symptom of the infection but Are not counted because their conditions Don t fit narrow Federal guidelines he added. The Public health service estimates 3,000 children will have the disease by 1991, and virtually All will die Koop mid. Because of the stigma of aids children with the disease have fewer Foster Homes available to them nod also suffer abandonment by the Mother and society Koop  fart the stigma has been an invisible but impenetrable Barrier Between them and a whole variety of social and Public health services Koop said. Aids children Moat be nurtured helped to grow and develop allowed to interact with Peers attend school and encouraged to participate in All activities of childhood despite shortened lives he said. Koop said there u absolutely no health reason Why children carrying aids should not attend  Koop invited Iso physicians social scientists and government of Fidas to children s Hospital of Phila Delphia where he was chief of surgery for 30 Yean to a three Day government sponsored conference. The Mother of a child who died after contracting the virus from a blood transfusion and the Mother of a 4 year old with aids will be interviewed. At the end of the meetings the conferees will report to Koop on How the government and private sector can better Cope with the problem a dozen demonstrators waved placards outside Ascoop spoke a reminder of the controversy surround ing his Call for sex education in the schools including How to avoid aids through Safe sex practices such As using condoms. Aids is a fatal affliction in which the body s immune system is unable to resist disease there is no known cure nearly two thirds of pedlar in aids cases Are the result of transmission from infected Mother to child. As Many As 65 percent of babies born to infected mothers will contract the disease according to Federal estimates. In addition Koop said aids can be misted in infants because the symptoms Are often similar to those of other paediatric diseases. More than half the babies born with aids Are Black and 2s percent Are hispanic according to Koop. This is additional catastrophic news for the Blac Community which already is under great economic and social stress he said Stanley Plolkin director of children s Hospital s division of infectious diseases said society has Olenter the moral equivalent of War on this  Playboy Hopes Apple macintosh computer Buff s get the picture Chicago a the pictures May be a Little fuzzy and they re in Black and White but Playboy mag Azine is betting that thousands of computer men Wulc at up Playboy online a computerized version of the Magazine it s like a teaser Bill Paige a spokesman for play boy enterprises inc., said monday night. We re Pic Turing a Guy who is really into his computer and May not be exposed to the kind of things in Playboy. If he likes what he sees on his computer he May just go out and buy the Magazine Playboy online is available Only to Apple macintosh computer users who also subscribe to one of several information networks such As the source use net and Delphi. Hopefully with time it will be made available for other formats that s Down the Road. You have to have computers that can make Clear graphics Paige said. This month Playboy online features two Black and White pictures of playmate Kymberly Paige her data Sheet favorite foods Lum on turn offs unabridged version of the Playboy interview three Small cartoons and the dear playmate feature with this month s question have you Ever been a deliberate lease the first online also features the Playboy adviser which answers questions from readers about sex Ste reos and other topics. Unlike the printed version no subscription fee i charged for the computer version of Playboy said Paige who is not related to this month s playmate the Only Cost involved is the $10 or $12 a month i costs to subscribe to one of the information networks and the charge of using the Telephone line he said the Only other thing you need is an Apple macintosh and a disc to download the Magazine  the Playboy spokesman said photos in the mag Azine Are reproduced using digital scanning equipment that creates dots on the computer screen to form graphic. Although a printout of the graphic can be made Paige said the computerized photos look belter on the screen. Paige said a Blue Springs mo., company approached Playboy about going on line with its mag Azine and designed the necessary software. The company. Buck wheat & associates already produces two macintosh magazines for information service sub scribers. Teen admits starting fire that killed 2 boys in 1982 Milwaukee a a teen Ager has and ruled accidents but Are now being considered homicides police said. The teen Ager who was 11 at the time ofthe1982 Fine also has been linked to several similar incidents. At age 9, he burned his family s Home in Michigan any ind., and he has admitted set Ting three fires in vacant Milwaukee Homes inthe last live months police said. He tells us that every time he s mad at some thing he does something crazy he sets fires,1 a police spokesman said. Philadelphia councilman acquitted on 3 counts Philadelphia a a Federal jury has acquitted a City councilman and his aide of three counts but deadlocked on 11 others in an indict ment alleging the men tried to extort is million from a riverfront  land Beloff and administrative aide Robert Rego on monday were found innocent of attempting to extort $100,000 from Developer John Bennett to help solve his labor troubles Reg also was acquitted on a charge of asking Bennett to do free repair work in Belof Tshombe. Village mayor suspected in bombing death of wife Toledo Ohio a the mayor of a Vil Lage of 350 people is a suspect in the car bomb ing death of his wife of 40 years who had sued him for divorce last june police said monday. Federal agents on monday inspected the car wreckage for clue to the saturday blast that killed Elaine Lach the wife of Clay Cente mayor John Lach. Lach checked himself into the psychiatric uni of a suburban Toledo Hospital sunday and remained there monday said Lake township police chief Edward Brucker. We do have a suspect. He mayor Lach is suspect. That s All i can Tell you at mis Point. We Haven t ruled out anyone at this Point Brucke said. Federal pay ceiling hike to Benefit Tva managers Knoxville Tenn. Up1 the recent hike in the Federal pay Cap will allow the Tennes see Valley authority Tva to increase manag ers salaries in its Power program where he fed eral Utility has had problems keeping qualified people officials said monday. The pay Cap limits what the seven state Agency can pay employees. Tva officials have Long complained the ceiling hurts efforts to hire qua lined people or causes employees to take better paying jobs at private  pay ceiling was increased $3,000, to $77,300 a year when Congress last month failed to Block recommendations of a presidential commission. Illinois woman Dies awaiting marrow transplant Collinsville map a 32-year-old woman who adopted five Chil Dren with special needs has died from complications that arose while she awaited a Bone marrow transplant. Lynn Schmacker who gained International attention during a recent fund raising Campaign to help finance a Antic marrow transplant died of cancer Sun Day. We really fed fortunate that she washable to keep a Gallant fight Al the end and she just did t slay Home and Wilhe Raway fund drive official Adele Leskera said. The single woman had adopted five children and hoped to adopt a sixth a Foster child in her care. One child has Spina Bifid a birth defect of the spine and he others suffer emotional problems. The youngsters Range in Ages from s to 12. The older ones Are taking it pretty hard the younger ones really Don t understand Leskera said of the children monday. But the whole town is  Schmacker s parents. Richard and Audrey Schiller of Bay City Texas have agreed to assume responsibility for the children Leskera said. Schmacker who had suffered five years from Hodgkin s disease was to undergo a Bone marrow transplant march24 at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Com plications during intense sessions of chemotherapy however led doctors to delay the procedure after she was admitted. A Hospital spokeswoman attribute Schmacker s death to lung damage caused by the disease. Friends had launched a fund drive i january to help raise the $75,000 needed for the transplant. The Illinois depart ment of Public Aid had refused to cover the costs under regulations that bar stat spending for experimental procedures. Within two weeks contributions Aromas far As Germany topped $75,000. A total of j129,000 was raised. The funds will be used to Cove Schmacker s Hospital costs Leskera said. The fund raising committee then will decide what to do with the balance she said. We d like it to be used to the Bene fit of the children Leskera said but the decision rests with the committee. She said she had fond memories of Schmacker. She called herself a packaged Deal Leskera said. She had adopted some children and she wanted people who dated her to know thai the kids came with  certainly led a valuable life the added. I m sure her spirit will live i Collinsville for a Long  the Illinois department of children and family services which had supported the children wholeheartedly backs the family s decision to Lake in Sulu Naecker s children Agency spokesman Tom Teague said. Aslo the Foster child Teague said family member would have to be licensed As a roster Patent in accordance with state Law