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y i J - -, *iV ' ` v- / J-Jg tfSi~!-' , - sSfr*.' ~*-v r . -, ; U-..- - ,, * ' - --- -' ' S 'V - 4 JWifiSwriSI ijiiWiift<) 0 0 0 2 3 12 fericus Yugoslav Disease The Post & Times-Star-- 3T Cincinnati, Thur., Jan. 19, 1961 i d Poisoning, Ohioan Suspects UdcoIr Heights CLEVELAND: A Cleveland land streptococci also have of the kidney ailment had no GOP Chib InstallsVjentist believes he can find been suspected. symptoms of lead poisoning, me cause of a strange, and THE' AREA, known as lead is a cumulative poison David A. Bradley has been !" Jteffling type of kidney dis ease from which 30,000 to J30,000 persons are dying in a Yugoslavia's "breadbasket," is rich farm land. On one side of the Sava River, the Mississippi of the country, and the slight lead pollution of the grain slowly may have taken its toll among older residents. elected president of the Lin coln Heights Republican Club. Installation ceremonies were small area of Yugoslavia. are plains and farms; on the It is a chronic type of kid other are mountains a n d jney disease. W h a t e v e r streams. Icauses it has been there a Hundreds of years ago the long time. In World War I Turks built many mills on the I0,000 U. S, troops in this streams, using the water (area were hospitalized Ikidney ailments, and with it is power to run grindstones, Farmers from the surround Irumored German troops in ing area took their corn to [the same area were sticken these mills to be ground. [in World War II. Through the centuries the Dr. Charles H. Rammel- mill stones have worn and Ikamp Jn, chief of medicine at chipped. The holes should Metropolitan : General Hospi- have been filled with melted Ital and professor of medicine alum, but some millers found Iat Western Vhy Not?Jsity here, iis Reserve sure the Univertrouble it easier and cheaper to them with melted lead, fill Dr. lis lead poisoning, radiation, uranium, although viruses Rammelkamp learned. ALTHOUGH THE victims In any event, Dr. Rammel kamp is sending Dr. Robert Griggs of his staff to Yugo slavia this month. Griggs will take 45 persons from un affected and affected villages. He will give them a drug which mobilizes lead accu mulated in the body and elim inates it in the urine. Blood and grain samples will be sent to the U. S. for tests. If the tests prove lead pois oning, Rammelkamp will di rect Ideal authorities on what to do. The National Heart -insti tute will finance the project. held recently at the Masonic Hall iii Lincoln Heights. George Bernhart was the installing officer. New offi cers were introduced by the retiring p r e s i d e n t , Sim Thompson. Other new officers include Nicholas Stenson, vice presi dent; Sirs. Doris Cole, secre tary; Lonnie Bennett, assist ant secretary; Theodore Da vis, corresponding secretary, and Luther T. Lyle, treasurer. A L B E R T LEA, MINN. (UPI): Joe Sparks is the fire chief here. _'"i - ' -r' i1>u ' .i ` f- . .V *-*1 . m irT A TV$' '-- -> Jr iafe.'fj-Jj