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in Pitt Scientists Make Discovery Bethel Stents llezd Youth Club Four students at Bethel Park High School have been elected officers of the Future Vitamin Believed Vital As Muscle Ailment Cure vje have Coal Study Form Selects New Head Mt. Lebanon Man New President In Monrotvill 3 Business Leaders of America, Region 10. Martin Him-sel. 17, of 5849 Wilson Dr, Bethel Park, was elected president of the Al leg heny County a p- ft rYll I. 'n i -i tional organi- Martin zation at a 22-schoo! week end convention.

He succeeds Judy Witzberger, a senior at Char-tiers Valley High School. Other new regional officers for the group, dedicated to developing competent, aggressive future business leaders among high school students are: Ruth Roberts, vice president; Patti Quel, secretary; and Mary Helen Smith, DR. Trying DR. JOHN W. ESTER Tracing vitamin deficiency GERALD RODNAN to curb painjul killer.

but also of the fibrous frame Your child may be more gifted than By GEORGE THOMAS For decades medical re vnn think I searchers have pondered the question: "Why Vitamin We know it's important but why?" Now along comes a Univer sity of Pittsburgh scientist with at least a partial answer: This vitamin prevents a Dar- Can IQ tests measure your thild's creativity? If not, what are the key signs to look for? In May Reader's Digest a noted authority warns that many well-meaning parents discourage creativity and tolls you how you can help your children develop it to the fullest. Condensed from fiedbook for Reader's Digest. May issue now on salt. ticular kind of degeneration of overcome the pancreas failureprobably is the long-range treatment indicated, Dr. Vester believes.

His research has been carried out at the Oakland Veterans Administration Hospital, where he is associate chief of staff. Dr. Rodnan, who doubles as director of Presbyterian-University Hospital's rheumatism clinic, has studied more than 100 cases of the rather uncommon scleroderm (hard skin). The disease, whose name comes from one external symptom, does its damage by creating too much of the connective tissue that holds skin to muscles and other tissues. This causes thickening and tightening not only of the skin work of vital organs such as the heart, lungs, esophagus and small intestine.

A protein named "collagen" Is the major component of connective tissue and collagen the only protein In the body contain ing significant amounts of the acid For the past few months, using a recently perfected measurement technique, Dr. Rodnan has been measuring the hydroxpyroline of 21 scleroderma victims on a collagen-free diet. He hones this study may help predict the course of the disease and evaluate the usefulness of various medicines in combating it. 1 James R. Garvey, vice pres.

Went and director of research of Bituminous Coal Research, (BCR) has been promoted to president of the Monroeville-based research organization. Ha will retain the title of director of research. Mr. Garvey, of Mt Lebanon, succeeds Stephen F. Dunn as president.

Mr. Dunn, president of the National Coal resigned because the task of co-ordinating the two affiliated organizations has been accomplished, he said. S. F. Sherwood, president of the Stonefort Coal Mining Indianapolis, was elected chairman of the board of BCR.

This is a new position, pending election of a chairman by the membership at the annual meeting, June 17, In Washington. Other newly-elected officers of BCR are John W. Igoe, vice president for administration and finance; D. P. Mc-Closkey, secretary 'treasurer; Thomas Howarth, assistant secretary-treasurer; and Brice O'Brien, general counsel.

2 At Pitt Win Fellowships Two faculty members at the University of Pittsburgh have been awarded 1963 Guggenheim Fellowships. Dr. Bruce A. Aune, assistant professor of philosophy, will study problems concerning the relation between the mental and the physical. Dr.

Ronald Bentlcy, professor of biochemistry, will study the metabolism in molds. They are among 269 scholars, scientists and artists awarded fellowships this year by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in New York City. Sisterhood Plans Judaism Institute Temple Sinai Sisterhood will sponsor an Institute on Judaism for Christian clergy and religious educators tomorrow in Temple Sinai, 5505 Forbes Ave. The ninth annual event begins at 10:30 a. m.

Rabbi Aaron B. Ilson, of Temple Sinai, and Rabbi Jason A. Edelstein. of Temple David in Monroeville, will head seminars on Jewish beliefs. muscle that is difficult to classify.

Dr. John W. Vester, assistant professor of biochemistry and medicine at Pitt, reported fully on his findings for the first time last night at the annual meeting of the American Federation for Clinical Research in Atlantic City, N. J. Tile City's our namal And tile Is our claim to fame I We've got blue tile, green tile, red tile, purple tile, brown tile In every tile to make every pattern! We've got vinyl tile, ceramic tile, rubber tile, mosaic tile and asphalt tile.

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Shortliffe, executive director of the hospital, will speak at, the 6:45 p. m. dinner ceremonies in the Medical Center Nurses' Residence, 190 Lothrop Oakland. ii I i i Another Pitt researcher, Dr. Gerald Rodnan, associate professor of medicine, covered clinical studies on the role of a strange amino acid called "hydroxproline" in the deadly, rare rheumatic disease called "scleroderma." Dr.

Vester believes he has demonstrated for the first time a specific human (Its-ease directly caused by vitamin deficiency. A 44-year-old patient's undefined muscle-wasting disease was traced, Dr. Vester said, to a disturbance of the mm, fil BIKE pancreas that prevented his body from absorbing fat the major source of Vitamin E. U'hon the naticnt was riven i.nitinTtri Pharmacy School Buys New Gear The Duquesne University School of Pharmacy has purchased an instrument to measure light absorbed by chemical substances. The recording spectrophotometer was obtained through a $4655 grant from the Smith, Kline and French Foundation of Philadelphia.

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