Show J "1 3K ?hc Salt £akf Sribunc Sunday March 29 1987 i Section G Page On the last 6 units of Phase 1 tcry home includes 3 Teammates Struck by Same Disease t bedrooms baths Fiteplace Use your snitKis in one of 3 ways: stone and 2 Ml 2 brick exterior Formal dining Main floor laundry I400sq ft un- finished lower flolladay location level Low Oversized tar garage Hut Link Mystifies 2 Antonucci Newspapers The SAN JOSE Calif men who played for the San hrancsco 49ers 23 years ago hojvent spent much time recently swapping lits or reliving moments in rhf sun JrMead they've held grim conver-sapun- s about a mysterious disease thfct killed two 1964 teammates and is drtunmg life from a third They've filjed out questionnaires about their tui&Uh while wondering if toxic time txnbs are hiding in their nerve cells aril muscles J)ay after dav they've scrounged through untrustworthy memories trjnng to figure out how three mem-bar- s of one team could develop an incurable and fatal illness that usually strikes only one of every 100000 Americans annually The illness is ALS amyotrophic iteral sclerosis a jttfiiction more commonly known as L$u Gehrigs disease Former running back Gary Lewis died from it last December at the age of 44 less th£n a month after being diagnosed hrmer linebacker Matt Hazeltine Mtcumbed in January at the age of SI after six years with the disease — for now — is forjThe survivor mer quarterback Bobby Waters 48 The football coach at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee NC Waters has lost virtually all use of his aijrns and hands since being diagnosed a little more than two years a jo His wife and children bathe him dtss him feed him and protect him frptn such simple dangers as having he limp fingers nipped by the family s retriever puppy But Waters is determined to be ngre of an aggressor than a victim By opening his office home and emotions to anyone who expresses an he has turned his plight and its extraordinary link to the 1964 49ers into symbols of the desperate search f( more information about ALS I need" said Waters calmly "to gft to the disease before it gets to Reduce your purchase price B JZv r ' V maintenance fees have your basement Jg no i osllv nm mtv pdtkmel finished FREE r v 3 j from Football Veterans I Take a $14000 credit with an interior design center Rv Mike Kmght-Ridde- r - I muscle-destroyin- rough-and-tumb- le if you elect to take the cash discount SaXnSli condominiums 4485 riew Vintage Court (approx 250 Cast 4500 South) 1 b )J is A Ujus phone ‘H7 HH3 7 Hiohet Mi Ik iutiim Sales Office Models open to 5pm daily 268-060- Kcpn-scntc- 0 Id 1 g rte " Waters' best hope is the hypothesis tlyal a statistical aberration such as a ALS "cluster" is not Somewhere in the coincidence aj three-teammat- e shared experiences of may bf a clue ttiat w ill end a decades-lonsearch lor the cause of ALS Former teammates are eager to help but some admit that it s more than a bit unsettling in middle age to bf asking themselves if something df adiy could have been in the air they bleathed the ground they practiced op or perhaps most frighteningly the (edicine they took My initial reaction" said former lebaeker Mke Dowdle "was that 4eve been hearing about the AIDS vr us for two years now I understand there are five years' incubation on AyUS Isthciea io vear incubation on ALS’" J The nature of ALS has been the who scariest factor for other kjtew little or nothing about the disease before Waters drew so much attention to it As ex receiver Monty Stickles not-e- l ' Matt Hazeltine said they tell you you've got it pat you on the head and tell you you're gonna die " The disease doesn't affect mental faculties so victims languish until tey are nunds trapped within bodies that become totally paralyzed in stages When swallowing and breathing are affected death usually follows because of nutritional and respiratory complications The ALS Association quotes an unreined patient as saying "It's like having a ringside seat to your own Ortho Volk oil Pest J read this publication'" said Steve directyhite the tor at Western Carolina "He kept fitting things in the mail Gosh his looked like a medical library — a4l the books he was reading on disorders " In the year after the diagnosis be-- i imc official Waters' condition dete-- r totaled dramatically University of f) ia Is acting with obviouss haste decided to name the school football f’ld after Waters on the day of the Column 1 See sports-informatio- n Lopping Shears Dormant Spray Disease control Waters' friends vividly remember hpw he tried to resist the diagnosis I ' He did not accept it for a long time that it was ALS even though qpcple kept saying Check into this SALE PRICE One SALE PRICE Contoured Wood Handle Pint Bottles 1 G-1- 2 —ML Iiansplanter Cnsp Edge r 496-02- ps CHOiCt ' t V' A S AS a Cultivator Weeder 2 for I Heavy Duty F t i v J $“ tv i f a store ’ nm Vinyl There is -t Osco Brand Charcoal Briquets SALE PRICE SALE PRICE For Itowel (k-s- j 20 Foot Roll Lawn Edging Chrome Plated Hand Garden Tools True Temper Control imise " near you! liqhts Fast Bums long 20 Pound Bog ‘ 1 ft i "W 4 “A f V : 'WWW jlfc I( 4 iC 'hi'" t ‘ |