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Ex-football pro has
contracted AIDS
Former Washington Redskins
standout Jerry Smith, 43, is under-
going treatment for AIDS and says
that he wants the public to know
about his battle with the deadly
disease.
Smith weighs just 150 pounds,
down from his playing weight of 210,
and is growing weaker daily, the
Washington Post reports. He has been
hospitalized at Holy Cross Hospital in
Silver Spring, Maryland.
The former receiver retired in 1978
and has run his own construction
business and owns a restaurant in
Texas. He is the first professional
athlete known to suffer from the
disease.
“I want people to know what I’ve
been through and how terrible this
disease is,” Smith said. “Maybe it will
help people understand. Maybe it
will help with development in re-
search. Maybe something positive
will come out of this.
“The support from my relatives,
friends, former teammates, doctors
and nurses has been unbelievable to
me,” Smith said. “It’s a shame some-
thing like this has to make you appre-
ciate what life is all about. You rea-
lize how maybe you should have
taken life a little slower and spend a
little more time with your family and
friends.”
Smith refuses to discuss his life-
style or how he might have contrac-
ted the disease and says that he is
angry at having gotten AIDS.
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“I’m angry for myself, and I’m
angry because I don’t want anybody
to have to go through this. It’s a
hideous disease.”
Smith says that after he began
losing weight last summer and no-
ticed he was tiring easily, he was
tested for exposure to the AIDS virus.
The test was negative but after the
symptoms persisted he took the test
again. It ^as positive the second time.
He has been repeatedly hospital-
ized and tried to get into a program at
the National Institutes of Health but
was refused “because I did not meet
the medical criteria.”
Smith is fed intravenously and
made comfortable with painkilling
drugs, his mother said.
Judge settles lovers’
property dispute
A Houston judge ended a five-year
legal battle between two men said to
be lovers over how more than $45,000
in cash and property they acquired
during their relationship would be
divided after they broke up.
Ronald McMonagle sued Richard
Rogers in 1981 when their relation-
ship ended. The case was to go before
a jury Aug. 19, but the two men
settled their dispute privately after
reporters showed up to cover the
trial, The Houston Post reported.
McMonagle’s attorney, Joe Alfred
Izen, Jr., said his client was “unhappy
with the amount’ awarded by District
Judge Wyatt Heard but that Mc-
Monagle was glad to have the dispute
resolved.
McMonagle said in his lawsuit that
he and Rogers were “roommates” for
five years before a “personal conflict”
ended the relationship. He charged
that he was not allowed to take an
estimated $30,000 in personal prop-
erty when he left and that Rogers had
withdrawn $16,000 from a bank ac-
count belonging to McMonagle.
Judge Heard said McMonagle was
awarded only part of the money and
property he claimed.
First City Bank of Highland Vil-
lage, named in the suit because it held
the $16,000 account, said in court
papers that the two men were lovers.
Lawyers for the men refused to con-
firm the relationship.
AIDS warning nets
dismissal, man says
A Houston man alleges in a $4.25
million lawsuit that he was fired
from his job as a concierge in a high-
rise condominium because he warned
people that two residents had died of
AIDS.
In the suit filed in state district
court Aug. 29, Floyd D. Penney, 58,
charges that he was fired June 6 from
his job at The Spires for his “com-
ments and concerns over a cover-up
or conspiracy by defendants to violate
the Communicable Disease Preven-
tion and Control Act.”
Penney says he was told by super-
iors not to tell residents that two other
residents had died recently of AIDS.
Officials from the company could
not be reached for comment.
Gays, insurers to
meet on AIDS law
Washington, D.C., gay leaders and
insurance company representatives
have agreed to work on ways to avoid
a lack of insurance coverage for the
city because of a law that prohibits
discrimination against people who
test positive for exposure to the AIDS
virus.
At least 20 insurers have said they
will stop issuing individual life and
health policies in Washington be-
cause they say they fear they will be
exposed to unacceptable risk.
One gay leader said supporters of
the law might consider changes to the
policies in the city, the Washington
Post reported.
“We want to look at what might be
done to address [the industry’s] con-
cerns,” said Steve Smith of the
Metropolitan Washington Commit-
tee on AIDS Issues.
Smith said, however, that he
doubts insurers will be hurt by the
new law, which took effect Aug. 7.
The bill has become a major issue in
the city and is the subject of moves in
Congress to overturn the measure.
Congres has the power to disapprove
of local laws in the District of
Columbia.
AIDS victim returns
to Indiana school
Ryan White, the 14-year-old AIDS
victim in Kokomo, Ind., returned to
school last week after a parents group
seeking to keep him out of classes
dropped their legal battle, citing lack
of funds.
Asked how it felt to be back in
school, the eighth-grader replied.
“It’s O.K.”
Last year school officials barred
White from attendingschool. A judge
threw out a restraining order, allow-
measure to entice insurers to write ing White to return to classes.
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Ritz, Don. Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, September 5, 1986, newspaper, September 5, 1986; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth615652/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.