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Bismarck Tribune Bismarcktribune.com Page 8AH Wednesday, August 29, 2007 Northwood: Sen. Conrad tours area Finalists: Six are in the running FROM 1A fa fan retired from the Peru, 111., Police Department. Jauch is in the process of completing a bachelor's degree through Governor's State University. He most recently served in the department as a lieutenant shift commander with responsibility for the department's com-puter network, grant administration and 91 1 systems. Before 2007, he was an administrative assistant to the chief of police.

(Reach reporter Jenny Michael at 250-8225 or FROM 1A City Police Department and has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Empire State College, a State University of New York. DelSardo worked in the department for 22 years, and his last position was as a lieutenant in the community affairs bureau, youth services section. He currently works as director of security for Professional Security Consultants in Bay Shore, N.Y. Christian Jauch Jr. has 30 years of law enforcement experience and recently Beethoven: 'Sick liver5 i AP FROM 1A A collapsed roof and scattered cinder blocks are shown on Monday in Northwood after a tornado hit the area.

the town of about 950 people, the weather service said. Officials hoped to restore power to the Northwood hospital, which has been on a backup system, on Tuesday night and to the rest of the community within a couple of days. Sen. Kent Conrad, who toured the area Tuesday, estimated "tens of millions" of dollars in damage to public facilities. Emergency operations spokesman Kevin Dean said 350 truckloads of debris were removed Monday, and officials hoped to double that Tuesday.

National Guard members are helping to clear debris and enforce an 8 p.m curfew. City officials did not ask for volunteers, saying they wanted to clean up areas first and make sure they were safe of such things as metal, wood or broken glass. The volunteers came, anyway, including 28 Mayville State University basketball players and two coaches who drove up in two vans. Head coach Justin Johnson said the players were quiet when they saw all the damage. "I don't think any of them really understood how devastating the damage could be.

It's pretty powerful stuff," Johnson said. "You have to see it with your own eyes to believe it," said Bryce Laxdal, one of the players. His teammate, Drew Bergerson, was carrying around a half-deflated and dirty basketball he found in the street. "This is a score FARMERS HIT BY STORM DAMAGE "Now some of the fields are just flattened." Several grain bins were reported missing around Aneta, in Nelson County. In southeastern North Dakota, a tornado flattened corn crops and destroyed hay bales in the Napoleon area.

Associated Press Storms that produced a devastating tornado in Northwood also damaged crops in North Dakota. Wind and hail devastated com and soybean fields in the Northwood area, leaving some fields with nothing left for harvest. "The crops around Northwood looked so good," farmer James Feickert said. Feb. 27, 1827, when Beethoven himself documented that he had been treated by Wawruch for the edema, said Reiter.

"Every time when his abdomen was punctured we have an increase of the concentration of lead in the hair." Such claims intrigue others who have researched the issue. "His data strongly suggests that Beethoven was subjected to significant lead exposures over the last 111 days of his life and that this lead may have been in the very medicines applied by his doctor," said Bill Walsh, who led the team at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory outside Chicago that found large amounts of lead in Beethoven's bone fragments. That research two years ago confirmed the cause of years of debilitating disease that likely led to his death but did not tie his demise to Wawruch. "I believe that Beethoven's death may have been caused by this application of lead-containing medicines to an already severely lead-poisoned man," Walsh said.

As for what caused the poisoning even before Wawruch's treatments, some say it was the lead-laced wine Beethoven drank. rhosis of the liver as well as edemas of the abdomen. Reiter says that in attempts to ease the composer's suffering, Wawruch repeatedly punctured the abdominal cavity and then sealed the wound with a lead-laced poultice. Although lead's toxicity was known even then, the doses contained in a treatment balm "were not poisonous enough to kill someone if he would have been healthy," Reiter said. "But what Dr.

Wawruch clearly did not know that his treatment was attacking an already sick liver, killing that organ." Even before the edemas developed, Wawruch noted in his diary that he treated an outbreak of pneumonia months before Beethoven's death with salts containing lead, which aggravated what researchers believe was an existing case of lead poisoning. But, said Reiter, it was the repeated doses of the lead-containing cream, administered by Wawruch in the last weeks of Beethoven's life, that did in the composer. Analysis of several hair strands showed "several peaks where the concentration of lead rose pretty massively" on the four occasions between Dec. 5, 1826, and "What we're trying to tell people is that there's going to be plenty of work, for quite some time," Dean said. Chemicals were donated to spray for mosquitoes, and with the rain of the past few days, "there's a lot of mosquitoes," he said.

Justin Morris, 12, was surveying damage at the Northwood school, where classes have been called off for the week. "It sure looks pretty bad," he said. The sounds of the heavy equipment were welcome. "The spirits are a lot higher today than they were yesterday," Dean said. Shelly Hagen, an administrative assistant at Agvise, said she lives on a farm outside town and has worked at the soil-testing plant for 22 years.

She was relieved to hear it would rebuild. "It's nice to have some good news," she said. er said he was grateful for all the help. On Sunday night, he had been caught up in the tornado in his vehicle as he tried to outrun the storm. A tree hit the side of the patrol car as he drove by the cemetery, he said.

"At that point, it lifted me up and set me down right in the yard. About all I could do was lay my head down and try to dodge all the stuff coming through the window," the chief said. "The debris was crazy." Officials said an 8 p.m. curfew would continue in the community, and they set a procedure for volunteers to register, saying they were not asking for volunteers until they made sure work areas were safe. right here," he said smiling.

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