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54 GKhKLKt (Colo.) Parents fighting the puzzle of Reye's Syndrome Roof gardener Rep. Frederick W. Richmond, mittee's domestic marketing and consumer waters his roof garden located outside his relations subcommittee, Richmond thinks off ice in the Longworth Building. Rep. Richard.

President Carter should have a garden at the planted tomatoes, peppers and beans. As White House. (AP Wirephoto) chairman of the House Agriculture Com- Dirty coal finds a home (AP)- take years to achieve," Dicks Due to a breakthrough in ener- said, adding that a conventional gy technology, the world's only coal-fired power plant with coal-fired magnetohydro- scrubbers operates at about 35 dynamics (MHD) plant can per cent efficiency, burn hign sulfur coal, catching Pollution is handled as the at least 95 per cent of the sulfur potassium combines with sulfur without using a costly scrubber, and coats the ash say scientists. Dr. John Dicks, director of By JEFFERY L.

SHELER GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. (UPI) One December night, in 1975, 11-year-old Johnny' Dieckman left his bed, walked! down the dark hallway to the' bathroom, collapsed and died. Doctors attributed the death to Reyes Syndrome, an often fatal liver ailment whose most frequent victims are children recovering from viral infections. Johnny's parents, Mr.

and Mrs. John Dieckman of Benzonia, had never heard of Reyes Syndrome. They were appalled to find their doctors knew little about the disease. A few months later, Dieckman and three other families who had suffered similar tragedies chartered the Reyes Syndrome Foundation, a nonprofit organization to promote research for the detection and treatment of the mysterious disease. "Most people don't know about Reyes Syndrome," said Dieckman, foundation president.

"It is very difficult for the layman the parent to detect. "It's basically a disease of the liver with encephalitis of the brain. The liver simply says, 'I'm going on vacation and I may not As a result, toxins get into the blood stream and go to the brain." Dieckman said the syndrome seems to set in three to five days after a child appears recovered from, some type of viral illness, such as influenza influenza chicken pox or a respiratory infection. 'The child starts to get lethargic and acts tired," Dieckman said. "Vomiting sets in, he becomes disoriented and may become violent.

Then he may go into a coma. If ne doesn't come out of the coma after 48 or 36 hours, he's in trouble." Treatment usually is limited to basic life support measures, Dieckman said. Exchange transfusions, cranial surgery to relieve pressure on the brain and total "saline washouts" ol the blood system have also been attempted. A team of doctors at the University of Michigan recently developed a more effective way of treating severe forms of the ailment by using special drugs to control brain pressure. The Reye's treatment team at the university's C.

S. Molt Children's Hospital reports the. survival rate has increased from 50 to 80 per cent in patients with moderately severe forms of the disease. Dieckman said statistics compiled by the National Center for Disease Control show a higher incidence of reported cases of Reyes Syndrome in states bordering the Great Lakes. He said Michigan recorded 50 cases in both 1974 and 1975.

"Essentially nothing in 26 years has been done," Dieckman said. "To the best of our knowledge the only dollar amount spent by the federal government directly in re- search of Reyes Syndrome is $100,000 compared to millions for other diseases." Dieckman said the foundation is trying to attract federal funds into research at existing medical centers. A team of six medical advisers from children's hospitals throughout the country assist the foundation in applying for available grants. "We are not interested in amassing great wealth for the foundation or in creating a the disease and a program of giant bureaucracy or research biochemical research and center of our own," he said, epideraiological study. "What we want to see is the "We see ourselves as a development of a treatment for catalyst to get the job." Song Contest Open To All Composers NEW YORK (UPI) A top prize of 55,000 will be awarded at the 12th annual Castlebar International Song Contest in County Mayo, Ireland, scheduled for October 3-8.

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20th St. 353-4445 house using centrifical force can easily catch the whole mess and the potassium can -be the University of Tennessee recycled. Space Institute's energy con- "Nature has been very kind servation division, said tests to us said Dick5 was showed that the MHD plant can strictly an accident that the po- operate on plentiful high sulfur tassium we dumped in to make coal to produce pollution-free oal gas an electric conductor electricity. SQ served to knock out prac- A production MHD plant ticaliy ail the sulfur." could produce 50 per cent more the Energy Re- power from a ton of coal than a search and Development Ad- conventional plant, he said Fri- ministration announced this day, adding that the process month thai the Soviets have op- could be commercially avail- erated an MHD plant fueled by able by 1985 or 1990, when natural gas for 250 consecutive America's oil and natural gas hours. begins running ml.

Th 3 P' ant based on the "This could run everything OTSI modd in a ml program else out of the midterm power between the two countries production produced 10 million watts of UTSI researchers are sched- electricity. A huge commercial uled to report their findings at model i expected to fuel Mosa scientific convention this cow ty 1985 week at the University of Pitts- Calculations show that by I985 I 1 5 nation will have rdy almost solely on coal to meet its energy demands, Dicks sa 'd. Coal industry figures show i I A A I A A A ')Savings In Every Department Shop Today 9AM to 10PM! Late Show and SALE! Sale Ends Friday at 10PM! burgh. Magnetohydrodynamics is a process discovered by Michael Farady in 1831. It has not been considered feasible until recently because of formidible fie United States has nearly gj engineering obstacles like 13 2 Dillion tons of high-sulfur containingcombustiontempera- coal reserves, almost all of it in tures up to 5,000 degrees.

eastern half of the country wnere cent of our popu- lati(m lives 18 Cu Ff2-Door Frost-Frae Refrigerator-Freezer 188 "This is much simpler and more efficient than the conventional plant that burns coal, produces heat, boils water, creates steam and uses it to drive a turbine," Dicks said. Instead, coal treated with potassium flows into a com-. bustion chamber and bums at high temperatures. The expanding gas, ionized by potassium, is forced at the speed of a bullet down a pipe and through a magnetic field. That creates electricity, and conducting tubes pluck it from the flowing gas.

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