European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 7, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. November 1988 the stars and stripes aids Issue draws fire in California election san Francisco a some 500 health Ore professionals have vowed that if a California ballot measure forcing them to report positive aids Lisl results becomes Law they will defy it a spokesman for the group said saturday. Employees at the largest Anonymous testing Center in san Francisco said they would refuse to reveal names of Hose who isl positive for the human immunodeficiency virus if proposition 102 is approved tuesday. Proposition 102 would ban Anonymous testing for the aids virus require health officials and others to report the names of people reasonably believed to be infected with his and require those infected with the virus to report the names of their spouse or sexual partners. Insurance companies could also test forthe Sims. The Bollom line is when police come to our door and ask for the names Well have to say we Wilt no be accomplices to something designed for discrimination said rabbi yowl Kahn of congregation Shaar Zahav which operates an outreach to the Gay and lesbian Community in san Francisco. The irresponsible use of this information can result i people losing jobs their health insurance and their Homes added Kahn who fears that As a Clergyman he May a required to report those carrying inc virus. Under inc initiative doctors face  and fines of$250 for each patient they fail to report. Despite that or. Floyd Kilien medical director of Highland Hospital in Oakland said 50 physicians had signed a pledge not to report the names of patients infected with his. I signed it i will not turn Over anyone in my practice Kuen said. This is bad Public health policy because it will keep people away from being tested and treatment be cause of Fea Ithal they will be  Huen said Many staff members arc considering shred Ding patient records if the initiative passes Francis Salmeri a spokesman for the alternative test site said workers have decided if he measure passes the will continue offering Tec Anonymous his tests. Under no condition will we give of names Salmeri said. Supporters of the measure reacted angrily to the pledge program. I do no think responsible people should ask people to break the Law said Paul Micro an aide to stale rep. William  Fullerton. Dannemeyer co sponsored the initiative with Paul Gann the tax crusader who helped spearhead property tax slashing proposition 13 a decade ago and who is now suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome be cause Ola tainted blood transfusion Republican gov. George Duck Majian provoked an outcry from medical experts last week when he announced he would vote for he proposition. Three members of an advisory slate aids committee resigned their positions in protest. The governor s endorsement prompted . Surgeon Genera la. Everett Koop to denounce the measure saying it would set Back aids research a minimum of five years. Working women let families keep buying Power Washington a More women working oils id the Home have allowed most american families to keep the buying Power they had 10 years Ngo according to a study released saturday forty percent of families however have not Cpl Pace with the increasing Cost of living Over the past decade the economic policy Institute study said. The report shows average american families Nave been under greater eco nomic pressure during the past decade than at any Lime since world War 11. The Institute established in 1986 by prominent Liberal economists says it is a non partisan non profit group. It has opposed the conservative economic poli cies of the Reagan administration the report said salaries for most women have increased faster than inflation while salaries for All but the richest american men Haven t kept up. The study documents n growing Gap be tween Rich and poor in inc United slates and says that Young adults who do nol Fin ish College Are doing substantially worse than those who were the same age a decade ago. Ii also says Low wages Are forcing grow ing numbers of unattached Young people mothers in the labor Force f working wives with children in percent of married woman working Mother  in percent of mothers to Tabor Force in Tabor Force with Cri Dmn in t with di1en in Sash a Al 511? -. Ert age Farot a Dun Der,1b,� under six 1.5 million More than a decade ago to return to the nest of their parents households rather than . Some conservative economists have argued that americans Are doing better be cause families arc smaller even if family incomes have not kept up with inflation. The report says the number of working wives increased from 55,4 percent in i979lo 66.1 percent in 1986. Wives earnings adjusted for Infra Ion increased 12.1 percent from an average 114,064 in 1979 to s 15,768 in 1986, the study says while husbands adjusted earnings dropped from $23,204 in1979toj22,240in i9s6. Even with wives working the study says roughly two out of five american families those earning less than about$27,000 a year in 1936 earned More than they did 10 years ago but the in crease did not keep up with inflation. Adjusted income for All americans in creased 7.3 percent however. If women had worked Only the number of hours they did in 1979, the study says average wages  increased Only 4,9 percent with three out of five families or those earning less than $40,000, lagging behind the inflation rate fans go a ouf to get article about football team Pikeville by. A a Story in a National Magazine on this appalachian mountains town and its unbending support of the High school football team has residents driving nearly Halfway across Kentucky for copies. People Magazine sold out in pick Lille stores soon after the Issue with the Story in it appeared on shelves last week frustrating residents eager to Sec the six Page spread it s the biggest demand i be Ever  said tra vis Goff owner of u downtown newsstand Stor owners such As Goff Are taking special orders for shipments of extra magazines and a radio stations giving copies away in a special promotion. Many in the Eastern Kentucky town of about 5,000 said there was a Good reason for the Story in people s nov. 7 Issue. The pick Villa High school panthers a Cal undefeated in football for the second straight season. I think it s a Good gesture toward the team Andice  said coach Hillard Howard. It s some thing this team deserves. You Don t see Many teams like this one come Down the  the Story focuses on Pikeville s 22-0 Triumph oct. 13 Over paints Villa which bad gone into the game undefeated. Sandy necessary distribution manager for a regional Magazine wholesaler in Paintsville said she believes people was sold out last week throughout most of Eastern Kentucky the wholesaler hoped to get More copies but some people just weren t willing to wait. Necessary said distributors in Central Kentucky reported Pikeville residents have driven 14s Miles to some stores in Lexington and bought up to 200 co " " zoo keepers Hope for mating gorillas slow to take hint Gulf Breeze Fla. A zoo keepers hoping for Little gorillas have brought big gorillas colossus and Muke together but so far it seems thai the Pri mate couple is still in the dating phase. Colossus at fi-Iool-2 and 570 pounds is said 10 be the largest Gorilla in Captivity bul he s inexperienced in the Gorilla mating game. Until he was introduced Fomuke be had t seen another Gorilla since infancy. Muke pronounced Monkey is one of the largest female gorillas in Captivity at 4-foot-b, and she knows How to throw her 274 pounds around. She has a rep. Tation for being ornery said Pat Quinn director of the zoo Here. He s exerting his male dominance bul she takes care of herself Quinn said thursday. He gets a scratch or a Snitch from Muke every time he gets hold of her. She s not Loo intimidated by him both gorillas arc about 22, and began sharing inc Large Gorilla Yard last  is on Breeding loan from the St. Louis zoo. If the two Don t mate. Colossus keepers won t be too brokenhearted. The main Pur pose of Muke s visit is to socialize colossus to Gorilla ways said Quinn. If they appear unlikely to mate a known Breeding female will be obtained he said. Sands of time in the stars and stripes /  c v \ a40 years ago . 7, 1948 gov. Thomas e. Dewey former Republican presidential Candi Dale said that inc  of the Republican party was a material Factor in his defeat for the presidency.  -. /.30 years ago today. Nov. 7. 1958 Tremy inc men were marooned on a ice Island in the Arctic Ocean when a violent Polar storm broke their scientific outpost in half and left them without acc is to the Small aircraft runway on the other half. 20 years ago Focay. Nov. 7, 1968 Republican Richard m. Nixon narrowly Defeated Democrat Hubert a Humphrey to become the 37lh president of the United Stales. / 0 years ago today. Nov. 7. 1978 Iran s new military government began restoring order in the ran imposing press censorship and dispatch ing troops to disperse rioters