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Fed Up Gatorade Inventor Claims Receipts Used For ScholarshipsBy BOB M. GASSAWAY Amoclatcd Proas WriterGAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP — The Inventor of Gatorade — tired of being called a greedy SOB” — says that from the first he has been using the money from the thirst quencher to feed and educate medical students.Dr. Robert Cade, a University of Florida associate professor of medicine, has been embroiled in a dispute with the university and the federal government over rights to royalties from Gator ade. He denies that the money, with one exception, has been used for his personal gain.“I have spent virtually all of the money I’ve gotten from Ga torade on supporting my lab and on people working here and on through medical school,” he said.Cade pleksthe recipients him self.“I think they need to go to school and they need to eat while they go to school. And I don’t particularly need the money. That’s what I wanted to do, so that’s what I did. This Is what I Intended to use the money for to begin with,” he says.‘‘If I had to pay the money back to the university, the royal ty money I have gotten from Gatorade, I would have to borrow the money to do It since I don’t have It.”Cade, the Inventor of the lemon lime drink that surges Into the bloodstream 12 times faster than water, and about 50 other people are shareholders In the Gatorade Trust which receives the royalties.Florida’s Board of Regents Is seeking rights to at least part of the royalties and the U.S. Do partment of Health, Education and Welfare has ordered the University of Florida to obtain assignment of all rights to the product put out by Stokely Van Camp Co.Cade said the Gatorade Trust has hired two Indianapolis attorneys to challenge the HEW order in federal court In Indiana. An Indianapolis bank serves as a depository for the Trust fund.”We think that’s a place where we’d get a more fair hearing than In other parts of the coun try,” Cade said. “If Health and Welfare filed the suit, they’d file suit in Washington and I think that If one is having an altercation with the federal gov ernment Washington is probably the worst place to have it.” Because of the challenges to the royalty rights, however, money from Stokely-Van Camp is being funneled Into “some kind of escrow bank account,” Cade said.“I haven’t gotten anything for several months,” he said.Cade specializes in treatingkidney ailments and Is head of the renal medicine program at the University of Florida. Monday he has an appointment with Gov. Claude Kirk to discuss ways to increase state funding to his department And Cade says he has been spending the Gatorade money there.“Monies I’ve received so far have been poured into the University of Florida's renal medicine program,” he said “As far as I can recall, the only money I've spent personally was $712 my wife paid for a couch.“We needed a couch, with or Cade wants the governor’s help In getting $300,000 from the state to expand facilities and hire new people.In the meantime, though, Cade says he is trying to bridge the gap with Gatorade funds, in eluding the hiring of assistants.“I have a couple of them that are hired sort of extra,” he said. “The people who work here at the health center, many of them are not paid from state funds at all.”No one In my lab is on a state line. The money that pays their salries comes from granting agencies or gifts or something else. I give the money and Miscellaneous Aids and Grants pays the salaries. That’s where a considerable amount of the money I have gotten has gone,” Dr. Cade saidIt’s Just those grants that has caused Cade trouble. HEW contends Gatorade was developed under a federal grant. The Board of Regents wants a cut of the pie because of a contract which insists all products resulting from research by a university employe, in the field in which he Is employed, become property of the university.In addition to funneling money Into the university aids and grants fund. Cade has chosen four students to help financially, he said.There Is one post doctor fellow who’s in renal medicine and his (financial support) has been from that (royalties), Cade said. “The three others are not studying renal medicine.” Despite the cutoff of funds from Gatorade, he said the four are taken care of for this year.” And he thinks money will be available in the future from Gatorade: I think we’ll get It in court and it will be all over, he said. “I think we’ll win because I think we’re right.”Cade says he tsn’t helping students just to provide more doctors to treat mankind’s Ills.I’m a lot less interested in manking than I am in an Individual who I know,” he said. It’s a lot easier to get excited for someone than mankind. Theyneeded help.”Would they have had to drop out of school without his help?“No, but they would have been exposed to severe hardship,” he said. ”1 think anyone can find a way to stay In school. They can borrow money to stay in school,” he said.Did he have similar help.“No,” he said, “but It wouldhave been nice.”“I have no Idea,” Cade said when asked w hat other member* of the trust are doing with their money. Some helped develop the drink. “It’s their money and they can do what they want to with It. I am sure others are doing similar things, but I don’t know to what extent.”
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