“If we had a 747 airliner that went down every month and killed 150 people – we wouldn’t stand for that,” said playwright and former TV talk show host Kathie Lee Gifford at a Club Newsmaker April 13. Yet too many children, four a day, are dying from child abuse and neglect, often in their own homes,” she said. Gifford, in town with her new musical “Saving Aimee,” was invited to the Club along with John Reid, executive director of ChildHelp, a child-abuse victim advocacy and support group. Reid said that The National Registry Act passed Congress in 2006 requires state-level data on the whereabouts of convicted sex offenders to be shared across state lines with child-abuse victims; but he added that funding required to implement has not been appropriated. He announced a new service called ChildHelp Alert, which provides phone calls to subscribers, informing them when registered sex offenders move into their neighborhood.