University director wins
stage, lighting awards
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Potentially harmful signals
discovered in Eugene area
By KEVIN HARDEN
Of the Emerald
A powerful radio signal of unknown origin that
may be harmful to area residents has been moni
tored in several Eugene locations and at 3,000 feet
above the city, the Eugene Register-Guard re
ported Sunday.
The radio signal has been discovered in six
locations, including the University and downtown
areas, the newspaper reported in a copyrighted
story.
According to Marshall Van Ert, an industrial
hygenist with the University Health Physics office,
the signals may be the first ever discovered in the
city or the state.
According to United Press International
(UPI), however, the signal has turned up in two
other Oregon cities.
A similar signal, which has been described by
experts as a powerful pulsing radio frequency
signal, has been monitored in both Portland and
Bend, the UPI said Monday.
The signal was first discovered by Van Ert
last October after he was approached by a Santa
Clara resident who complained of headaches,
insomnia and other symptoms generally related
to electromagnetic radiation sickness.
At that time, the newspaper said, the resident
had been to several state and local agencies and
spent nearly $500 of his own money for private
consulting firms in an attempt to identify the low
level noises and vibrations that he had experi
enced in his home.
Van Ert visited the man’s home and felt the
vibrations but was unable to record the signal with
his equipment.
After contacting a Portland-based non-profit
corportation which researches the possible ad
verse health effects of radio waves and mi
crowaves, Van Ert and two of the engineers
measured the signal in the six city locations and in
the air above the city.
Initial testing by the engineers and Van Ert
placed the locations of the signals as the areas in
the vicinity of Franklin Boulevard and Agate
Street, Seventh Avenue near the Ferry Street
Bridge, 25th Avenue and Chambers Street, Belt
Line Road and River Road, Beit Line Road and
Coburg Road and the northern edge of Santa
Clara, east of River Road.
Van Ert interviewed 25 people living in these
areas and concluded that the vibration may have
caused anything from headaches to ear and
throat problems, the newspaper said.
The pulsing nature of the signal is of the most
concern to researchers from the State's Health
Division’s radiation control section.
According to Kay Prince of that office, who
has been working with Van Ert to determine pos
sible health related problems of the signal, ex
posure to pulsed electromagnetic radiation pro
duces a "large number of biological effects in
humans and animals,” she told the Register
Guard.
State Health officials said Monday that highly
sophisticated equipment which will be used to
determine the origin and the type of signal Van Ert
detected will be dispatched to Eugene to help
solve the mystery. No timetable has been set for
the equipment to arrive, the Associated Press
reported, but, Prince said, it may be as long as two
months.
The technical director of the
University Theatre has won two
awards for outstanding achieve
ment in stage and lighting design
in 1977.
Tom Prewitt, who joined Uni
versity Theatre last fall, won the
1977 Critics Award of the Nevada
State Journal and the Reno Even
ing Gazette for best technical
achievement in the state. The
award was based on his work for
the Nevada Repertory Company
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while he was technical director
and resident designer for the Uni
versity of Nevada Theatre.
The work with the opera guild
included restoration of Piper's
Opera House, a Victorian theatre
in Virginia City.
Prewitt also was cited by the
American Theatre Association for
his stage designs for “Steambath”
and “Jacques Brel is Alive and
Well and Living in Paris.“
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