European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 13, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page g the stars and stripes monday August 13,1990 the headaches of using computer squeal is stressful to women study says Evansville ind. Apr women afflicted by headaches and tension at the office should not automatically blame the Boss. The source of the irritation May be a High Fri Quincy barely audible squeal from their computers. Two researchers believe they have linked noise made by video display terminals with stress symptoms in women who hear High frequency sounds better than men. A the sound is present in almost All american computers a said or. Caroline Dow assistant professor of communication at the University of Evansville. A we can All work through that sound but it is tiring and  the sound might be compared to the cry of a Rabbit caught in a trap said Downs husband or. Douglas Covert. A this squeal to a Mother is a distress Call a Dow said. Dow and Covert also an assistant pro Fessor of communication at the University were to present their findings sunday at the National convention of the association for education in journalism and mass communications in Minneapolis. Dow noticed the effects while working in a computer Laboratory at another University. Quot these computers bugged me a she said. Quot i was very Meiyr Strung out. Sometimes i could hear it arid sometimes i could  v the couples studies show women can be affected by the noise even when they can to consciously hear it she said. But men Are rarely bothered because most of them cannot hear the 16-Kii-Ohcrtz pure Tonc sound at All she said. Men generally cannot hear frequencies above 15 Khz while women can hear up to 18 Khz Dow said. Such pure tones Are More distressing than the Broad Range sounds people More commonly hear in their environment she said. Dow and Covert became interested in computer noise after observing headaches fatigue and irritability in female students working with classroom computers. In the fall of 1987, they came to the University of Evansville which agreed to support their research. In their first test in april 1987, 41 students were asked to do clerical tasks in a room where the sound was created at about the level of Normal conversation. A what we found was they seeded up and doubled their errors when exposed to the sound a Dow said a those Are symptoms of High  last March the couple set up a second test using 100 female students. The group was asked to spend a morning Tak ing the graduate record exam half of them working while exposed to the tone. A the experimental group did anywhere from 8 percent to 9,5 percent worse than the control group a Dow said. The couple said they Hope their research will be duplicated and expanded by other researchers. They wonder if further study could link the noise with miscarriages and other health problems linked to computers. In the meantime there is some Relief for people who find the tone irritating Dow said. Switching to a High definition Monitor should solve the problem. Those monitors operate at twice the frequency producing a noise Well above the human hearing Range. When noisy monitors can to be avoided foam earplugs can offer temporary Relief by reducing the intensity of High pitched sounds without affecting Ordinary conversation. Ups Sweet treat Rebecca Ullrich feeds costumed Greg Bennett a fit a Center for the elderly. The two took turns car for Ful of Watermelon As the two help promote Mel ing the Melon costume. And they also passed out on lest an Indianapolis event raising Money to Bene hard candies. The flavor Watermelon of course. 5 Young men get life sentences for racially motivated murder Philadelphia dim a live Young men were sentenced saturday to life in prison for the death last summer of a 17->ear-old boy in a racially motivated attack. Hie common pleas Couri jury deliberated less than two hours before sentencing Juan Cion ales 18 James Sanders 21 James Marline is Rafael Dro 20 and Alexis Rodrigue 20. All arc residents of Philadelphia. The panel began its Dehue rations about 11 30 . Saturday. 1 lie jury on wednesday convicted the live of first degree murder in the May 1989 killing of Sean daily the while son of a Philadelphia police officer. Lanny a members of the defendants All of whom Are hispanic reacted emotionally As the life sentences is Ere read by the jury Foreman to a parked sixth juror courtroom. One woman screamed and ran Down the balt was. And another woman fainted. The mothers of if defendants had made passionate appeals for mercy earlier in the proceedings. After the sentences w Ere announced members of the puerto Riean Justice defense coalition blocked the hallway so reporters and photographers could not talk to or take pictures of family members or others involved in the Case. Outside a Jay Hall protesters chanted Quot no Justice no peace tand a defendants Don t worry a the Eom Vilh you Quot As the defendants were led into a  for the trip to Holm Esburg prison. Protesters who had been outside City Hall almost every Day of the eight week trial also called the news Media and judge Lynne Abraham  sub Kentucky christened with Bourbon Groton Conn. Apr the Navy on saturday christened the Kentucky its newest Trident submarine with a bottle of blended Bourbon from the Bluegrass state. The Kentucky with a Crew of 154, is to serve As an undersea intercontinental missile launching platform. It will be commissioned next year. Carolyn Hopkins the wife of rep. Larry j. Hopkins r-ky., smashed a commemorative bottle of Bourbon blended from eight Kentucky distilleries Over the Hull of the 560-foot, 18,750-ton boat Groton police said 10 anti nuclear protesters were arrested at the site and released saturday afternoon. The electric boat division of general dynamics has delivered 10 of the ships and is close to delivering an 11th, the West Virginia. Seven More Trident Are under construction. Newport news shipbuilding amp dry Dock co. In Newport news va., also makes nuclear submarines. The submarine Kentucky will be the third . Naval vessel to be named in Honor of the Bluegrass slate. The first was a Confederate transport the second a battleship decommissioned in 1920.diptheria Case sets off alarm in Missouri county Clayton map a a rare Case of diphtheria diagnosed in an 18-year-old woman prompted a warning this weekend by worried health officials. Most children Are immunized against the potentially lethal disease when they begin school but they can outgrow the immunity said or. Linda a. Fisher chief medical examiner of St. Louis county. She issued a warning saturday asking adults not to Overlook the symptoms of diphtheria which include sore Throat fever cough and difficulty swallowing. Diphtheria features the development of a greenish Gray membrane in the Throat. The membrane can Block the Airway causing respiratory failure. The woman was listed in serious condition saturday at St. Johns mercy medical Center in Creve Coeur Fisher said. She was diagnosed with diphtheria on Friday after showing symptoms for about a week. Or. Farrin Manian an infectious disease specialist who is treating the woman said state records indicate this May be the first Missouri diphtheria Case in 15 years lie said medical literature showed fewer than live eases in the United slates in the last 10 years. �?~agricultural1 chemical sold to Iraq Oil company says Bartlesville okla. Lupi a a Phillips Petroleum t o. Spokesman has confirmed that the company produced a chemical apparently used by Iraq to make Mustard Gas. Allied defense forces deploying in saudi Arabia have expressed concern about the possibility of Iraq using chemical weapons As it has done in previous conflicts. Phillips spokesman George Minter said the com pan v a Belgium division sold 520 ions of third glycol Oral Al 10 a dial he trader in mid-1983, and the trader sold 500 tons of i he chemical to Iraq a fur agricultural