European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 8, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday. July 8. 1987 the stars and stripes Page 7 aids fear blamed in Chicago blood crisis Chicago Ai officials at Chicago Wood Banks say dial fair of aids May he adding to the severity of inc a dial summer drop in donations. The Supply is Uay Down and we re advising the hospitals thai they May have to postpone elective sur Gery said Linda Dillman a spokeswoman for life source the area s largest blood Bank. Dillman said an unprecedented join Appeal for blood donations is being made by life source and its competitor. United blood services which together provide about 90 percent of Cook county s blood sup ply. A recent Survey indicated that 45 Pyrc Cal of Illinois residents believed they could contract aids by Donat ing blood Dillman said. Aids is transmitted by Contact with infected blood usually through sexual Intercourse or from sharing hypodermic Needles. Some  have contracted aids by receiving transfusions of infected blood although All blood now is routinely tested for the virus. Blood donors. However face no risk of the disease because the Only blood involved is their own. Both life source and United blood services expect severe blood shortages from july through september especially in supplies of blood types o and a Dill unsaid. A total deficit of 6,000 units about a week s sup ply of blood is exp Clad by the two blood Banks until the shortage ends Dillman said. Blood centers elsewhere in Illinois reported nose vere shortages. July and August always lends to he a Lime when blood centers Are looking for More donors said con Nie o Neill administrative director of the Champaign county blood Bank. Our donations compared with this Lime last year arc about the same or a Little  we cannot say we arc in dire need or we arc in a critical state said Jane Conner an administrator with the Central Illinois Community blood Bank in Spring Field which serves about 10 hospitals. Donors arc always needed and what with summer and vacations it s a Little harder. But we Are meeting he demand for surgeries in the Springfield  she said. Virginia electrocuted killer As Appeal rejected Richmond a. The Leader of a group of wealthy Young men called the billionaire boys club was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole monday for killing a Man whose body he never been found. Moments before sentence was imposed by Superior court judge Laurence j. Kitty Bud Trie father of the victim nipped to he witness Blu and denounced defendant Joe Hunt As cold blooded  Ronald Levin was the old cil of our Thra sons Martin Levin old i repacked courtroom. He was a sensitive Loving Young nun who Wai Cut Down in the prime of his  Hunt 27, leaned Forward with his Chin in his hands Ai be listened to Levin s speech. Rittenband Laid Hunt he believed i would be i greater punishment for him o spend life in prison than to be executed which also would have been a  Hunt was convicted in april of killing Levin who was said 10 have duped Huntin an investment scam. Levin disappeared in the summer of 1984, and his body was never found. Witnesses at the trial said Levin was killed and his face disfigured with shot gun blasts before he was buried in a re mole Lection of Soledad Canyon. The defense maintained he is Stilt alive. Hunt s billionaire boys club consisted mostly of buddies from the exclusive Harvard school prep Academy in the san Fernando Valley. They came from wealthy and socially prominent Southern California families and dreamed of making their own millions quickly. The prosecution alleged that Levin was slain because he tricked Hunt int believing he had parlayed a 15 million  into si3 million. Hum had been counting supposed profits As his in making investment for he club. Hunt is also awaiting trial in san matco county in the july 1984 slaying of the father of one club member