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THIRD SUHDAY CALL-CHRONICLE WEATHER UVj SECTION EDITORIALOPED AUGUST 1, -(982 Allen High's gaSon 5s Dieiruffff's toss CD I jii By GARY KOCHER Of the Call-Chronicle Some people think of Allen and Dieruf high schools as twins. Their enrollment figures show them becoming more like Mutt and Jeff As a result of a boundary change that was phased in over the past several years and other population shifts, Allen will be nearly twice as large as its younger East Side brother within a year. Allen has always been the larger of the two, but the difference is widening because the dividing line between the two was changed from 7th Street to 4th Street when the Allentown School District adopted its long-range building plan in the late 1970s. The enrollment disparity was foreseen at that time, and it was one reason Director Charles H. Nehf voted against the plan.

At a meeting on April 27, 1978, he said the situation would result in fifiAcademically we'll still be drawing a fine student. We've been the underdog before. We've accepted that challenge in the past; we'll accept that challenge in the future, gyp Michael P. Meilinger Dieruff principal (quoted in 199) 'iw: 1 -iniMniMiiiiliiiiilmiiliiilt''ir)iir-- iilrmrffrn-inrinMiM4iill I "inequality in education for the boys and girls in Allentown. It's unfair to the people of the East Side." 7 Subsequently, the school board passed a resolution guaranteeing equality in programs at the two schools, but practical considerations are beginning to make that goal elusive.

This spring, for example, the school board decided that under-enrolled elective courses would be dropped. As a result, 14 elective courses were deleted at Dieruff. Because of its higher enrollment, only four were dropped at Allen. Also, Robert Klova, the district's director of high schools. said Dieruff 's smaller size makes it more difficult to schedule a student for all the classes he wants.

That is because many courses at Dieruff are given during only one period in the school day. If a student wants, for instance, both astronomy and gifted English, there is a chance that they are offered during the same period and the student must choose between the two. At Allen, there is more of a chance that each course is given more than once during the day; allowing flexibility in scheduling. Please See SCHOOLS Page B3 Witness: says dispute led to fatal stabbing By KAREN BALL Of the Call-Chronicle BOBBY ROE Call-Chronicle Trainer Dave Hoover shuts his eyes and becomes a hurdle for one of his lions for Aug. 9 before District Justice Edward Pressmann.

In an interview from her home, Ms. Donner said Thomas returned home about 10 p.m. Friday and confronted Mizell for disturbing a woman in her apartment on the second floor. The two argued on the third-floor balcony before Mizell pulled out a small pocketknife and stabbed Thomas, she said. Thomas tried to walk down the stairs while clutching his stomach and the handrail, she said.

'There was blood pouring out of him and he said 'I ain't going to make and then he fell to the floor," Ms. Donner said. "He fell right on my feet," she said. "I had to step over him. I couldn't take it anymore." Please See STABBING Page B3 An Allentown man who was fatally stabbed late Friday is said to have died as the result of a dispute with his roommate.

Douglas Thomas, 52, who resided on the third floor of 529 Turner died about 11 p.m. at Sacred Heart Hospital from a stab wound to his chest, Lehigh County Coroner Robert Weir said yesterday. The suspect, Charles Mizell, 50, is in Lehigh County Prison without bail. Police have charged him with stabbing Thomas during an argument over an incident earlier in the evening. Linda Donner, 31, of 531 Turner said she watched the killing.

She said investigators have asked her to be the key witness in Mizell' preliminary hearing, set Only a man like Johnny Pugh could keep a circus on its toes 'That's low enoueh." he savs in his British arppnt that By BOB WITTMAN JR. Of the Call-Chronicle has all the lilt of the choppy North Sea. "This way it'll light up the ground not the top of the tent." That's the way it is with Johnny Pugh. If there's a light out of place, he'll be the one to spot it. Because John W.

Pugh is the Beatty show. He's devoted half of his working life to it, first as a performer acrobatics, trampoline, aerial act later as an assistant manager, general manager and vice president. Everyone remarks that no one knows the operation better than Johnny, V- Yet, he says, "The last thing I wanted to do was own it." But at a few minutes before midnight last New Year's Eve, -that came to him, too. The circus has been in financial trouble for years. Workers and performers have learned to ignore rumors that each season is Clyde Beatty's last.

1 i It's 4 30 on a hot afternoon in Stroudsburg, and the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus is poised to begin its first performance of a two-day run, the midpoint stop of its 34-week 1982 tour. The Big Top is jammed with children of all ages. Musicians are seated on the orchestra's stage. Thirteen elephants stand with ears flapping just outside the "back door," waiting to make their trotting entrance that marks the beginning of the show.

And Johnny Pugh, sitting on a folding chair underneath the marquee tent where late circus-goers still are passing through, happens to look up. High in the peak, attached to the center pole by a pulley, hangs a single light bulb and metal shade. 'Lower it, Pugh calls to a roustabout, who unties a rope and sends the light downward. When the light is a few r-feet above head-level, Pugh gestures. Worker falls 3 floors, escapes serious injury A Whitehall Township contractor escaped serious injury yesterday when his wooden scaffolding broke and he fell three floors to the ground, landing on his feet Donald Keeney, 35, of 41 59 S.

Church St was treated for fractures of the foot and toes at Allentown Hospital, then released, Keeney, who reportedly owns his own business, was bricking a window at 1 934 Allen St, Allentown, when the accident happened. He landed inches from a wire fence, according to reports. A policeman at the scene said Keeney landed on both feet Please See CIRCUS Page B3 The gay plague' a deadly epidemic stalks a lifestyle skin cancer that causes blue or authorities in Allentown, Bethlehem and diarrhea. These symptoms last The case profile, developed by the federal Centers for Disease Control, discovered that victims tended to be male homosexuals; predominantly white; most used drugs, including a stimulant called amyl nitrate inhaled to heighten sexual climax; had Cytomegalovirus infection (CMV), and had other infections including herpes simplex, candidiasis, which is a fungal infection, toxoplasmosis, a fungal infection of the central nervous system, and hepatitis. Symptoms suggesting Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease include fever, weight loss, generalized swelling of the body's lymph nodes, set them up for a disease which has never been known in humans before but now is causing an epidemic far worse than Legionnaire's Disease or Toxic Shock Syndrome.

It's called Acquired Immunodeficiency Disease (AID) or more casually "the gay plague" and it's killing gay men, heterosexual drug users who share syringes, hemophiliacs and for unknown reasons, Haitians. At least two Lehigh Valley male homosexuals who spend their workweek in New York have contracted the disease. There are no known cases of AID originating in the Lehigh Valley, according to medical By LARRY THOMPSON Call-Chronicle Medical Editor The couples on the dance floor are good. Well-dressed, sophisticated looking, obviously they are educated and affluent, perhaps professionals. They also are all men.

The bar is one of Allentown's three gay bars. It's a place where homosexuals can comfortably cruise for a onenight stand a casual sexual encounter with someone they never knew and might never see again. It's some gays' lifestyle of casual sex with frequent, and often anonymous, companions that has purple blotches on the skin; Kaposi's sarcoma usually strikes people older than 50 and seldom kills. Both the cancer and the pneumonia only occur after AID has destroyed the immune system. When found in young, otherwise healthy people, they are indications that AID is present.

As of July 22, 469 people nationwide who were not taking immune suppressing drugs had developed either the pneumonia or Kaposi's sarcoma. Those diseases killed 180, nearly 40 percent of those affected. The number of deaths probably will climb with time. for months. "This is a serious prolonged illness in these people," said pr.

Harold W. Jaffe, deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control AID task force. The symptoms of the two male homosexuals from the Lehigh Val-, ley included persistent fever and fatigue with swollen lymph nodes. One man developed Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia a year ago, said the doctor. Drug therapy cleared the pneumonia, but he must remain on a routine dose of an antibiotic to prevent recurrence.

Please See PLAGUE Page B1 0 and Easton. AID invades the body and somehow destroys part of the immune system, the collection of specialized cells which protect the person from diseases and infections. Specifically, AID somehow shuts down a certain type of white blood cell called a T-lymphocytes, which directly attack invading viruses and bacteria by eating them. With the T-cells out of action, the victim is open to opportunistic infections like Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia PCP which seldom affects healthy people, or unusual cancers like Kaposi's sacroma, a.