European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 4, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday january 4,1989 the stars and stripes Page Illinois May repeal premarital aids testing Law Springfield 111. A in making their wed Ding plans Rhonda Hufford and Todd Kellermann chose musicians Pink dresses and Gray tuxedos. An they were tested for aids under a year old Law some officials say in t Worth the Cost. The nation s Only premarital aids testing Lawman not be a Law much longer primarily because like the Kellermann the overwhelming majority of those tested have shown no signs of the aids virus. Illinois mandatory testing program took effect Jan. 1,1988. But Only 23 of the 150,000 people tested in the first 11 months were found to be infected with the virus Testate department of Public health said. That s about one in every 6,500 tested. The Cost of the aids test in Illinois including the doctor s visit ranges from $25 to $125 per person said state health department spokesman to Schafer. Based on a conservative $35 average the Cost of finding each of the 23 infected people Cameto More than $228,000, he said. Still to receive a marriage License for their june wed Ding Kellermann and Hufford a nursing student had to show the Macon county clerk s office a certificate verify ing they had been tested. I m easygoing about it said Kellermann a 22-year-old Springfield computer Long As they make it a Law there s not much you can do about but the Law has resulted in a 25 percent drop in the number of marriage License applications in Illinois state Public health director Bernard Turnock of Illinois couples have gone to bordering states to tie the knot. They Don t want to take the aids test said Janet Hudacek of the Lake county ind., clerk s of fice which has seen a sixfold increase in the number of Illinois residents seeking marriage licenses. Mostly it s the to the North in Kenosha county wis., officials Are Selling More marriage licenses to people from Illinois than to Wisconsin residents. Through dec. 8, they said 1,073 Illinois couple got married in Kenosha county 51 percent of All licenses issued. The previous year 58 Illinois Cou Ples were married there of 1,021 licenses issued said Michelle Riley a clerk in the county offices. Because the number of people with aids infections detected through premarital testing is so Low and the Cost so High Turnock plans to recommend to gov. James r. Thompson a Republican that the Law be scrapped. Democratic state rep. Grace Mary Stern who was rebuffed this Spring in efforts to dump the testing Law has filed legislation for this session to end the testing. But Republican rep. Penny Pullen said repealing the Law would Send a message that Illinois no longer sees aids As a serious problem. This program is giving thousands of Illinois Cou Ples the Good news that they Are not infected she said. In this society with its current mores that can be very Good news indeed and yet it s very unlikely that couples would demand the test of each other i the state did not demand Illinois is the Only state with a premarital aids testing Law. Louisiana repealed its version of the Law last year. I think other states Are still looking at doing i but i doubt they will because they re finding really it s not very Cost effective said Tracey Hooker Astaff associate at the National conference of state Legislatures in Denver. Aids or acquired immune deficiency syndrome destroys the body s defences against disease. Cause of fatal fire maids turn in $65,000 puzzles investigators left in Ohio hotel room Remer Minn. A a close knit Community grieved tuesday Over the loss of 10 people in a new year s Day fire whose cause investigators said May never be known. A Mother who lost four children in the Laze remained hospitalized monday after becoming hysterical and an elementary school called on a crisis intervention team to counsel children who lost five classmates. I have a suspicion we May never Beable to determine the source of this fire said Elmer Baltes a Deputy state fire marshal As he surveyed the soldering ruins of the Home that caught fire Earl sunday killing eight children and two adults. The extent of the fire makes i very arson has been ruled out and a fuel Oil space Heater appeared to have been turned off Baltes said but a Wood Burn ing stove electrical problems smoking material a Christmas tree and children playing with matches All were being investigated As possible sources of the fire. Remer fire chief Leo Renn said the fire spread so quickly it was unlikely any one woke up before being overcome by smoke. Three Walls and the roof of the two Story House already had collapsed when firefighters in the North Central Minnesota town of about 400 people arrived at 2 25 ., Renn said. Nancy Watson who returned Home from celebrating her 32nd birthday with her husband John to find her House in ashes became hysterical and repeatedly tried to Rush inside authorities said. She remained hospitalized monday. Killed were the Watson s four Chil Dren Jenny 14, Samantha 11, Edward 9, and William 8 mrs. Watson s sister and brother in Law Becky and Jean Smischney their two children Jay 10,and Kimberly 8 and two neighbor Chil Dren Michelle Bastle 10, and Robi Bastle 12. Tammy Grover 18, a Stepsister of John Watson told investigators monday the House had three smoke had said earlier there were no smoke detectors in the Home but when told of Graver s comment he said he May have been wrong. The fire was discovered by passing motorists who stopped at the Home of Melody Berczyk across the Road. It was one big Ball of flame right then said Berczyk who called the fire department. She said she had looked out the win Dow a half hour earlier before going to bed and saw no flames. The whole town is in Shock. I m Stillin Shock said mayor Chuck Gilstead. Friends and neighbors set up a memo rial fund at a Bank and donation cans in a cafe. Mike Doro principal of the 147-Stu-Dent elementary school which five of the children attended said he has asked for crisis intervention team to come to the school tuesday. Being a Small elementary school it Slike one big family. I really Don t know what s going to happen Doro , Well just All pull Columbus Ohio up they did t get a Reward much less a thank you but two Columbus hotel maids have a feeling in their hearts this new year that Money can t buy not even$65,000. While cleaning a Columbus hotel suit Over the weekend Paula Vaughan and Cathy Dean found a shoe Box containing$65,000 in Cash. They immediately turned the Money in at the hotel s front desk. A guest who had checked out saturday returned to claim the Money. As a child i went to Church Ever sunday said Vaughan 26. I was taught if you find something that does belong to you turn it in. It makes you feel Good like the glow you get after you give birth to a Dean 36, said she was stunned a finding the Money. I about passed out she said. I Heldon to it real tight As we took it Back to the front Laura Butkovic manager of Resi Dence inn said the guest did not offer the women a Reward and appeared so relieved she apparently even forgot to say thank you. Residence inn spokeswoman Lind Catalina said she notified officials at the 130-hotel Chain s Washington Headquarters and that the two maids will receive some sort of Reward. We re extremely proud of these two she said. It s employees like these who make our guests feel because of privacy concerns Catalin refused to identify the guest or confirm the exact amount of Cash found but said it was an extremely Large amount of Cathy Dean left and Paula Vaughan . Says arrested Man is Al Capone of Italy Chicago a he says he is a hard working but the . Government has concluded that Esposi Estly successful restaurant he and his wife opened inches chasing the american dream. But the . Govern to is the Man named in an extradition request from " " ment contends Carmine Esposito is the Al Capone of italian authorities. Italy a ruthless mob Boss linked to a dozen killings. The document charges that Esposito ordered Oesposito 31, facing a Jan. 13 deportation hearing is committed 12 killings in Italy from april 1982 through fighting a return to Italy that he says would mean june 1983 while holding a top Post in the Nova Cam certain death at the hands of mobsters or corrupt Law Orra Orga Pizzata a criminal clan similar to the mafia enforcement officials. That operates in and around Naples near Esposito a would the Al Capone of Italy come to Chicago Hometown of Acerra. And work like a dog would he leave behind his pro Esposito is big fish said italian judge Vicenzo Lection and his Money he demanded in a recent in Scolastico who was involved in the investigation of Ter View from the Federal metropolitan correctional the organization. Center where he has been held in solitary confinement As a member of the Camorrah s policy making for 21 months. Council of nine Esposito had people strangled. Some would the Al Capone of Italy get up at 4 Had to dig their own Graves before they were shot each Day to go buy meat to make sausage alone to bodies were mutilated or deliver it at night. Not have enough time in a Day to Esposito was arrested in March 1987 As he and Sev and for All that there is not one eyewitness one Pho even Wash yourself eral employees finished lunch at Bravissimo the mod to graph one fingerprint.". He also worked As a chef there and earlier had worked As an Auto body repairman car Salesman and sausage maker. He entered the United states in 1984, had no Trou ble with the Law and appeared to have been what he claimed a contented hard working immigrant whose sweat earned him a growing business and a Home in the suburbs. He earned enough Money to sindhis children to parochial schools. But All that changed with Esposito s arrest. Lengthy court fight drained his resources and forced his family onto Public Aid Rolls. He also said his prison confinement has worsened a heart condition. The authorities make him out to be a one Man crime wave said Esposito s attorney Philip Parenti on i triv Oil f n a 4 n a a to f4 St n a ia�i4ann _ _ _ _ 1_ _
