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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1988)
WE MAKE IT EASIER! Between the Lines Couch Park killer strikes again? Alcohol and AIDS. SouthPark Square. FERGUSON AUTOBODV & PAI NT Charter Member A utobody Craftsman Association PRECISION COLLISION REPAIR UNIBODY SPECIALISTS FRAME STRAIGHTENING TOWING ARRANGED ^ QUALITY WORK AT A FAIR PRICE W ST B MEMBER 232-3600 2454 E. Burnside 0 Fam ily O w ned A O perated Since 1952 HAPPY HARVEST Neighborhood Groceries AND LUNCH BAR OPEN 7 DAYS A W EEK 235-5358 CORNER OF SE 24TH AND ANKENY (form erly King Harvest) Hip Foods For H ealth y P eo p le TOOZE Ml TABOR FL0RI5T Contemporary and Distinctive Designs Created Specifically for You and Your Lifestyle Remember your dad on Father’s Day, June 19th 256-2920 Just Out • 6 • June I WH R I L E Y A killer may be stalking you tonight needles have been used as weapons. AIDS can be contracted via a contaminated needle, but police say they do not know if the robber is actually infected with the disease. omicide detectives Thomas Nelson and Firms scramble for AIDS data Mike Hefley of the Portland Bureau of t appears that corporations in the United Police could use some cooperation from the gay States have avoided the issue of how to community in tracking down the Couch Park handle AIDS-infected workers for as long as killer. To refresh your memory: in February, a possible and now are having to cope with the young man who frequented local gay bars was medical and legal issues these employees are killed by an unknown assailant who first raising. Managerial ignorance of employee rights could prove dangerous and costly where mmmmmmwmwm company-sponsored medical insurance policies are involved. Margaret Magnus, editor of mmmmm Personnel Journal, reports: “ From what we’ve been hearing, bosses panic when a mmm worker announces that he has the disease, fear ing that the employee’s disease may be contagious. • • • Between the L i n e s . .. “ Some companies have made the severe mistake of dismissing workers for having AIDS. Dismissal on these grounds is illegal in mmm many states and grounds for suing the mmmmm company.” strangled him and then slit his throat near a play Personnel Journal publishes a 35-page resource manual entitled 4 ‘AIDS in the ground structure in a Northwest neighborhood Workplace.” Apparently some companies need park. The victim’s photo was tacked up in every that information. In one dramatic instance, an gay establishment in the area, but police had unnamed Fortune corporation responded to few leads. the research question. “Does your company’s Rumors have it that someone among us knows employee medical plan cover AIDS-related what the killer may look like and is afraid to go expenses?” with the caustic reply, “ Just to the police with information. According to enough to cover the cost of the bullet.” word on the street, the killer may have attempt ed a similar attack in the same park within Locally, senior managers and business executives participated in a national video tele recent weeks. The intended victim supposedly escaped unharmed with a fairly vivid descrip conference at Good Samaritan Hospital on May tion of his attacker. 24. The topic, “ AIDS: A Matter of Corporate If that is true, we hope that he will step Policy,” addressed some of the serious cost forward and give police the information they complications for employers, along with staff need before the killer strikes again. morale, lost productivity and staff replacement. The conference was aimed at helping local companies design effective AIDS programs. Alcohol increases AIDS H I susceptibility lcohol consumption — as little as four beers — may alter immunity in healthy cells and make them more susceptible to the AIDS virus, warned researchers at a recent meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology in Las Vegas. A team found that the immune cells from six healthy volunteers lost some of their resistance to HIV infection after the volunteers drank an average of four beers. SouthPark Square: middle- In the test, cells from the volunteers were income housing for the rich infected with HIV and compared before and 13 to 17 hours after the volunteers drank beer. Test he second major “‘middle-income” results showed that cells produced more HIV housing project in downtown Portland, after exposure to alcohol than before SouthPark Square, is looking for a few good alcohol was consumed. tenants with upper-income housing budgets. The results may be related to alcohol's ability This $16 million, 13-story complex, with its to depress the immune system. Moreover, the own athletic club, rooftop pool and racquetball study indicates alcohol may promote an envi court, was touted as being affordable to those ronment for growth and spread of the AIDS who eam between 80 and 150 percent of virus in people who are already infected, bring the area’s median income, which in 1987 was ing on disease symptoms faster $23,040 for an individual and $26,300 for a Similar triggering of AIDS symptoms has couple. also been blamed on abuse of speed, cocaine SouthPark’s office reports a 54 percent and marijuana. occupancy rate so far. with only two studios remaining at $430 and $440 a month.(At such a bargain they’re probably already gone.) AIDS used as deadly weapon in Monthly rents start at $345 for a studio and Tacoma robberies range upward to a modest $ 1,575 for a three- olice in Tacoma. Washington, are looking bedroom townhouse. tor a latter-day robber who uses a syringe Denver-based Simpson Housing Corp. supposedly filled with AIDS-infected blood as developed SouthPark, taking advantage of his weapon of choice. incentives including low-interest loans, tax- Three store clerks so far have handed over exempt revenue bonds and a limited property- their money to a bandit who threatened to stick tax abatement program offered by the Portland them with his needle if they didn't cooperate Development Commission. Police say they suspect that the same man is Anyone out there get the feeling that "middle involved in several other robberies where income" is slightly above your head? • A T P 7819 SE Stark J A C K