European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 15, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Wednesday april 15, 1992 the stars and stripes a Page 7report warns of dangers to teen drinkers by Andrew Mollison Cox news service Washington surgeon general Antonia Novello who has campaigned against alcoholic beverage ads that Appeal to Young people said monday that she had More reasons Why companies should not sell those types of ads. She was backed up by Chris a High school senior from a Maryland suburb of Washington . He said he began drinking heavily while he was in the eighth Grade. Novello showed statistics on How Many preteens and teen agers drink. She also showed ads in which drinking is associated with surfing skiing rafting swimming and other activities at which people can be Hurt. A i have heard from Young people urging me to give them facts not jargon to give them honest facts and not hyperbole a she said. Novello released a report on 51 studies showing that Young people who have been drinking Are More Likely than other people their age to commit crimes be victims of crimes partake in sexual behaviour that risks pregnancy or disease to drop out of school attempt suicide or be Hurt in sports or car accidents. Then it was time to hear from Chris the Only one who remained in school out of six friends who began to drink together in the eighth Grade. A shoot its just a its incredible How it can affect your life a Chris said. A people do not realize when kids see things like this on to they say a wow you know i can go out and do this. 1 can a you know i can go out and drink Budweiser with my  a Novellow a repeated attacks on ads for alcoholic beverages Arentt helpful said Jeff Becker a vice president of the Beer Institute. He said Deer companies aim their ads Only at adults. Surgeon general Antonia Novello displays a Beer and in Washington on monday. Alabama town s really humming a and folks want to know Why by Ronald smothers the new York times Hueytown Ala. A for the last four months a loud hum that comes and goes erratically has bedevilled parts of this Central Alabama City keeping people awake and setting Teeth on Edge and dogs to howling. Its called the Hueytown hum a Low pitched steady sound emanating from the rolling Hills surrounding this Coal mining town of 15,000 people about 15 Miles Southwest of Birmingham. The hum has turned bucolic subdivisions with names such As Eden Wood and Lakeview into zones of stress for up to three Days at a time before fading away Only to return an hour or a week later. A i catch myself trying to breath in time with its Rise and fall in pitch a said an exasperated Jane Harless. And the sound has disoriented beast and human alike. A my dog Princess wont eat when its going a she said. Savina Bradberry a High school math teacher said it sounds like a the hum of a fluorescent Light tube about to go.�?�. The hum has prompted jokes and numerous theories about its source. In a broadcast from the Steps of City Hall on april 1, a local radio station solicited Tongue in Cheek theories. Hueytown was humming because it did no to know the words one listener suggested. Another said it was killer bees. More serious theories cite electromagnetic forces and High voltage Power lines. The mystery is made More elusive by the fact that one area with about 500 Homes seems to be most affected. Such focused sound Phenomena Are not unheard of said Clifford Bragdon a professor of City planning at Georgia Institute of technology in Atlanta and an expert on sound propagation. Some years ago Bragdon said two communities 10 to 17 Miles from the Aberdeen proving grounds an army ordnance test Center in Maryland complained of noise from the tests while communities adjacent to the base were barely disturbed. What researchers eventually found he said was a an atmospheric anomaly involving the interaction of temperature humidity barometric pressure wind and Topography that was a propagating changeling and focusing the sound to a Point Miles from the source. A people try to get at these things by using the classical visual approach a the professor said. A but you need an acoustical Sherlock Holmes to solve things like  ,. Using More circumstantial evidence some residents have focused on the huge ventilation fans that have Alabama Fla. Been installed in nearby Coal mines. Federal safety regulations require that the fans be operated around the clock to pull methane Gas and Coal dust from the mines. A amps the us  Oak Grove mines 10 Miles West of Hueytown have five such fans but a us spokesman Steve sobat said company engineers determined that its fans were not causing the hum. He conceded however that the Clearing last year of Timber from a us owned Pine Forest that had served As a Buffer Between Hueytown and the mines could have contributed to the problem. Just South of us a a mines Jim Walter resources inc. Operates a mine that has three fans one of which is a 3,500-horsepower monster with 12-foot Blades. The $7 million fan went into operation last december at about the time Hueytown residents recall first hearing the hum. Dennis k. Hall director of Public relations for Jim Walter resources said that the company was cooperating with Hueytown officials to resolve the mystery. But he added that any additional company expenditure in the Effort including hiring outside experts would require the approval of a bankruptcy court that is supervising the mining operation while Jim Walter resources reorganizes under chapter 11 More religion needed women soy new York up a a Survey of 1,499 women around the country indicates that a majority of them feel there is too Little mention of religion and god today and Many would like to see daily prayer in schools Glamour Magazine reported monday. The Survey of 1,499 Glamour readers Between the Ages of 18 and 44 showed that 64 percent believe that religion and god should have More Public exposure in daily life. A if people were More accepting of religion in Public there would be less drug abuse sex and violence and More reverence a one Reader said. However 23 percent said there is too much talk about god and religion with one woman commenting a a in a sick and tired of fundamentalists trying to Force their beliefs on everyone. Religion is a personal relationship not a Public  thirteen percent polled Felt things should stay just As they Are. Only 35 percent of the respondents believe that daily prayer should continue to be excluded from schools the poll showed. But a majority 60 percent revealed that they would like daily prayer to be allowed in school systems. A a it a time to return to the principles that built this nation. Our founding fathers ideas regarding the separation of Church and state have been twisted and grossly  More than 80 percent of the women surveyed said that Public displays of religion such As a nativity scene or menorah should be permitted. A the first amendment guarantees Freedom of religion not Freedom from religion a one respondent  for Elvis stamp gets off to rocking Start from wire reports Washington a More than 300,000 americans cast their ballots in the first week of voting on the new Elvis stamp. Cards and letters must be postmarked by april 24 to count in the contest to decide whether next years Presley stamp shows the Young Elvis or the More mature Singer of later life. . Postal service spokeswoman Robin min Ard said the number of trays of mail shipped to an accounting firm for tallying indicated that a Well Over 300,000�?� votes had been received in the first week. Officials arc not making any preliminary tally of which Elvis image gets More votes however. A we done to want to know a she said. The Winner will be announced in june at Presley a Graceland mansion in  son jailed fined Beverly Hills Calif. Eric Douglas the youngest son of actor Kirk Douglas was sentenced to five Days in jail and fined $810 monday for kicking a policeman. Eric Douglas 33, pleaded no contest feb. 7 to a charge of resisting arrest. He was accused of kicking an officer who was called to an aug. 7 argument Between Douglas and his former attorney. The officer Wasny to seriously Hurt. Last . 11, Eric Douglas was sentenced to Community service at a women a shelter after pleading no contest to assaulting two women in the building where he works.1851 photo nets record new York a a Daguerreotype of three storefronts in Cincinnati in 1851 bought $63,800 at auction monday setting a world record for this Early Type of photograph. The Street scene by photographer James Presley Ball was sold at Swann auction galleries to an unidentified private collector breaking the $59,400 previous world record paid in 1985 by the National portrait gallery for a portrait by photographer Mathew  s just one of the pack Clarkston Mich. A . Does no to seem to mind that All of her classmates Are dogs. But the affectionate pig puts her Hoof Down in choosing Between a dog biscuit or pig Chow As a Reward in the obedience class. A a she a rather have some Purina pig Chow or Munch a Bunch of peanuts a said Mary Beth Jones director of the Trainer obedience Center. . Is an 8-month-old vietnamese potbellied pig who lives with her owner Jodi Miller 25, in the Detroit suburb. A we Call her our Swine child a said Miller a student at Oakland University. A i began looking for an obedience class for her after the vet thought she needed to be More