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State & Local ' Page 2 The Battalion Wednesday, October^ Dallas woman causes AIDS scare Public shows greater interest in prevention, information DALLAS (AP) - Health workers are staffing phones and forgoing paperwork to keep up with requests for HIV tests and in formation from people fearful of an AIDS-infected woman who has said she is intentionally spreading the deadly disease. Since a letter written by a woman who identified herself only as "C.J." was read over the air by Dallas radio personality Willis Johnson, health workers said they have seen greater public interest in preventing the disease, especially in minority communi ties. In the letter, published in the September issue of Ebony maga zine, the Dallas woman said she was getting revenge on the man who infected her with the ac quired immune deficiency syn drome through a sexual en counter. C.J. has made the threat of ac quiring the fatal disease seem "much more real" to several Dal las residents, said Alban Alfaro, education coordinator for the Dal las County Health Department. "The ones who have been fol lowing C.J. closely," Alfaro said, "we noticed when we go out to conduct outreach, many times they would bring up C.J. and say, 'When are you guys going to catch C.J.?'" Dallas County Health Depart ment spokesman Michael Smerick says clinic staff has informed him that phone calls have dramatically increased since the article first ap peared. "The thing with C.J. is this person is very vocal," Smerick said. "We know this person is out there, but how many silent C.J.'s are out there and how many silent C.J.'s are out there that don't know they have been infected with the disease?” Dallas County reported 3,182 AIDS cases through July 31. The first case was reported in 1981. Statewide, 13,170 AIDS cases have been reported. AIDS is a fatal disease that is transmitted through sexual con tact, use of contaminated syringes and exchanges of bodily fluids. There is no known cure. C.J.'s notoriety has prompted radio stations to ask health de partment officials to be guests on talk shows. Church groups, especially tra ditionally black churches, and youth groups also have expressed increased interest in AIDS semi nars, Smerick said. "Education to me is the way (to fight AIDS) and we've hit stone wall after stone wall 10 years after the fact," Smerick said. "We still have schools that won't let us come in and talk about con doms. We still have groups that won't let us come in and talk about cleaning your needles." The Dallas Police Department is not searching for the woman, al though at least one officer is keep ing a file on her. A clerk in the Crimes Against Persons unit Said the department has received numerous calls from people who say they know who C.J. is. But every one has identi fied a different person, the clerk said. Police spokeswoman Eva Romero said the department is not looking for C.J. because no one has stepped forward saying they were infected by her. Plants unable to find buyers for product Recycling programs face troubles Authorities reopen case for testimony CHILDRESS, Texas (AP) - A Childress County grand jury is seeking testimony from additional witnesses in the death of a Chil dress teenager who was found hanged in 1988. The death of 17-year-old Tate Rowland had been ruled a suicide, but authorities have reopened the case to determine if the death was part of a cult ritual. "It's a quagmire," Childress County District Attorney David McCoy said Tuesday. "There's enough evidence that you can't ig nore the case, but there's not enough to bite your teeth into." McCoy said three witnesses called to testify before the grand jury on Monday did not show up. One of the individuals who failed to testify is an 18-year-old man who claims to have wit nessed Rowland hang himself. AUSTIN (AP) - A glut in the recycled paper industry may force Austin and other Texas cities to scale back or scrap their newspa per recycling programs, city and industry officials say. Matt Myers, recycling coordi nator for ACCO Waste Paper of Austin, said Monday his company has asked to renegotiate its con tract with the city because it can not find buyers for the increasing amounts of paper it has been re ceiving. "It could be possible in the near future that there won't be any newspaper pickup on a curb-side basis," Myers said. "We are in a renegotiating pro cess with the city," he said. "Something has to change. The stacks of papers just keep piling up. I mean, what good does it do to collect newspapers if we have nowhere to go with them?" Alan Watts, recycling manager for Austin, said, "The thought of not being able to recycle newspa pers is certainly not a pleasant one, but I don't want to say any thing that will panic everybody. "We are worried that the mar kets are tight. But there is still a lot of potential for market develop ment in recycled newspapers. If we need to explore other markets to meet our supply, then we'll do that." ACCO had been shipping 1,500 tons of old newspapers each month to a paper mill outside Monterrey, Mexico. Officials at the mill, which pro cesses the paper into newsprint for Mexican newspaper, told the Austin company it will cut incom ing shipments by about half, to 800 tons per month for the next two years. ACCO district manager David Anderson also said that prices for newsprint have plunged about 30 percent in recent months and the mill has increased its quality stan dards. Myers said, "What we receive from Austin almost puts us to that limit each month. And what we receive from our other customers puts us way over the limit." Austin officials collect about 700 tons of old newsprint and pa per a month from residents who participate in the curb-side recy cling program. ACCO also has notified the cities of Burnet, Granite Shoals, LaGrange, Lakeway, San Marcos and Wimberley that it will pull its newspaper dropoff sites in those areas, Myers said. Recycled paper contractors in Waco, San Antonio and the Rio Grande Valley that send paper to the PIPSA paper mill in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, also have been asked to scale back shipments and face similar problems, he said. [big SWEDEN’S MEAL DEAL IT’S ALMOST MORE THAM YOU CAN EAT! Good For (Jp To 4 Per Coupon Culpepper Plaza College Station. Texas Exp. 10-7-91 I I I I I I I I I I $4.99 | i Va. LB. 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The Battalion news department is man aged by students at Texas A&M University in the Division of Student Publications, a unit of the Department of Journalism. The newsroom phone number is 845-3316. ednes Artificial pump patien awaits heart transplant Ex HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston-area man who is the world's :; recipient of a portable battery-powered heart pump said Tuesday felt so good he was not looking forward to an inevitable heart ti; plant. "That's a hard question," Michael Templeton, 33, of Humble,v "There are quite a lot of complications with a transplant. "I feel so good. When I felt terrible, making a decision tohavei was a lot easier than when I'm feeling good and they sayMiave have a transplant." Templeton received the second of five HeartMate devices if operation Sept. 3 at the Texas Heart Institute. The first recipient of the HeartMate, Larry Heinsohn, 53 Shreveport, La., died two weeks after it was implanted May 9. Pb cians said at the time that Heinsohn's death was unrelated to the vice because other organs had deteriorated during his illness. Templeton suffers from idiopathic cardiomyopathy, a heart® cle disease of unknown origin. Without the device, he would died. "He was in a more or less moribund state," O. Howard Fraa: chief of cardiopulmonary transplantation at the Texas Heart Instifc said. "He's recovered well. Our hope and goal is to make the pad more mobile and to allow a more selective heart transplant. An portant goal is to reduce the cost of health care." Frazier said hospital bills approach $200,000 for a heart transpi;; recipient without the cost of the actual operation since intensiveca unit charges average $4,000 per day. The electric pump, meanwhi costs between $40,000 and $50,000. Victor Poirier, president of Thermo CardioSystems Inc. and dev: oper of the pump, said his device is the product of 25 years andi! million of research. "This has not happened overnight," Poirier said. His company is a subsidiary of Thermedics Inc. of Woburn, Ma: The titanium pump is four inches in diameter and 11/4 inches tkl and weighs about two pounds. PORI - The m the Haiti claimed i Jean-Bert sary to si tor." The passione his count pending He pi force to i homelan Venezue resist the The r to 6 a.m. over one stations i Gunf the capi menacin amounte well. Then Officials capture inmate, continue search for anothei FORT WORTH (AP) - One of two inmates who freed them selves from handcuffs and com mandeered a van transporting them to another jail remained at large and possibly armed Tues day, officials said. ■** The inmates escaped from the jail van at about 9 p.m. Monday night while in route from the main jail in downtown Fort Worth to the Tarrant County Green Bay Fa cility. Their escape prompted a mam hunt that involved more than 100 law enforcement officers, heli copters and dogs. 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